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3-ranciscan Iterate

A monthly magazine edited and published by the Friars Minor of the Sac$
Third Order and of the Franciscan

CONTENTS

EDITORIALS

The New Year — Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt,
O. F. M. — A New Venture— Msgr. Wil-
liam H. Ketcham 4

THE THIRD ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS

Chats with Tertiaries 6

By Fr. Giles, 0. F. M.

Resolutions Proposed and Adopted by the
International Convention of the
Third Order in Rome 8

On Making a Home 9

By Agnes Modesta

MISSIONS

The Franciscans in New Mexico 12

By Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt, O. F. M.

My Good Indians at K6ldepat-wa 14

By Fr. Justin, 0. F. M., Missionary in Arizona

FICTION

Who Wins? 16

By Blanche Weitbrec

The Laugh 21

By Mary J. Malloy

IN THE INTEREST OF WOMEN 23

By Grace Keon

FIRESIDE TALKS AND TALES 26

By Elizabeth Rose

MISCELLANEOUS

Thomas A Kempis 31

By Catharine McPartlin

In the World op Books 38

By Paul H. Richards

FRANCISCAN NEWS 44

OUR MISSION PICTURES

Everyone who makes a trip to California is above
all anxious to see the Old Franciscan Missions. To
visit California and not to see the Old Missions is
like visiting Rome and not seeing the Coliseum. The
Old Missions, many of them only ruins of past splen-
dor and achievement, are regarded by all as integral
parts of California. They are the pride of the State
and the object of admiration to all tourists. Grand
and magnificent in their ruins, they are a silent but
eloquent testimony of the untiring activity of the
old Spanish Franciscan Padres. They tell of the
almost superhuman efforts made by these saintly men
to convert and v to civilize their Indian charges, to
teach them not only the Faith of Christ but also all
things necessary for a happy and successful exist-
ence here below.

No doubt, we all would enjoy a visit to these places.
But for most of our readers such-a thing is out of the
question. They have neither the time nor the means
to make a tour to California. Hence, the FRANCIS-
CAN HERALD has taken it upon itself to lead you
month by month through these wonderful places.
This it will do by means of pictures on the front cover
page. Every month you will find a picture of one of
these missions and an explanation of the picture in
this column. In this way we hope to be able to give
you an idea of the wonderful work performed by the
Franciscans of California. It will be a panorama
trip through scenes of loveliness and splendor, a trip
we know you will enjoy and appreciate.

FRANCISCAN HERALD

January, 1922 Vol. X No. 1

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The New Year

A happy and blessed New Year is the sincere wish
of FRANCISCAN HERALD to all its readers. To be
a happy year for you, the year 1922 must bring you
the blessing and the grace of God. That is what we
wish you all — God's blessing and grace in all its full-
ness. We have learned to love the old year because
we now know what it brought us; but we need not
fear the near year on account of its uncertainty.
The mercy and the goodness of God are not uncertain
to those who believe in His fatherly Providence.
Knowing this, we can look hopefully to the New Year.
To make ourselves worthy of its blessings, must be
our aim and endeavor.

It is not without a special meaning that holy
Mother Church begins each year with the feast of the
Circumcision. On this day the new-born King re-
ceived His Name, a Name that came down from
heaven, the most significant, the most holy name of
Jesus. "Thou shall call his name Jesus, for he shall
save his people from their sins." Mt., 1, 21. In the
Name of Jesus we must also begin and continue the
new year, for in that Name alone is there strength
and success. Jesus must rule and guide our thoughts,
our words, our actions. Through Him and in Him
we may expect in the new year "health enough to
make work a pleasure; w.ealth enough to support our
needs; strength enough to battle with difficulties and
to overcome them; grace enough to confess our sins
and forsake them; patience enough to toil until some
good is accomplished; charity enough that shall see
some good in our neighbor; cheerfulness enough that
shall make others glad ; faith enough that shall make
real the things of God; and hope enough that shall
remove all anxious fears concerning the future."

Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt, O. F. M.

With this issue we are compelled to bid farewell
to one of our most esteemed and earliest contributors,
Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt, 0. F. M. From the first
month of its existence, FRANCISCAN HERALD was
favored with an article by this gifted author, whom
critics consider the foremost Catholic writer of
American Mission history. Many letters have been
received in this office, in which the articles of Fr.
Zephyrin on the early missionary labors of the Fran-
ciscans in the South and West were highly commented
on. We ourselves considered his department as a big
drawing card. But now we must bid farewell to him.
We do so with sincere thanks and with the fond hope
that it may not be a lasting one. Fr. Zephyrin is
seventy years of age, and during the last score or

more years he has worked hard gathering material
for his monumental work, "The Missions and Mis-
sionaries of California." Four large volumes cov-
ering the general history, together with an Index
volume, have already appeared. Of the local history,
which he is writing at present, two volumes, San
Diego and San Luis Rey, are finished. The material
for the remaining nineteen missions also has been
gathered. During the last year or so the good Father
has been ailing, and more than anything else his eye-
sight is suffering from the continual strain. This
alone it was that compelled him to cease writing for
the FRANCISCAN HERALD. His advanced age and
his infirmities no longer permit him to undertake the
extra work required in getting the articles for the
FRANCISCAN HERALD, as this was done besides his
regular work in editing the history of the California
Missions. We know, dear reader, that you will miss
Fr. Zephyrin's monthly contribution. But we can
only ask you to share his loss with us, as in this case
your loss is also ours. We can not say good-bye to Fr.
Zephyrin without publicly thanking him, both in our
name and in the name of all our readers, for the many
splendid and valuable articles he has contributed to
the FRANCISCAN HERALD. At the same time we
all will unite in prayer and ask God to restore him to
health and to his erstwhile vigor.

A New Venture — Attention, Directors!

The directors of Tertiary fraternities, as well as the
ever-growing number of friends and promoters of the
Franciscan movement, will be grateful to learn that
a magazine in English for them will shortly make its
first appearance. The publication is to be known as
THE THIRD ORDER FORUM, and is to appear quar-
terly, bringing sermon matter for the direction of
fraternities, apologetic and didactic matter, a de-
partment for the discussion of the activities and pos-
sibilities of the Order, notes and news items of
special interest, the calendar of feasts and favors,
and similar details. Its appeal will be not merely to
the directors but also to all priests and others who
are interested in the Great Social Reform, so per-
sistently urged by the great Leo XIII and his august
successors. The call for such a magazine in English,
repeatedly voiced, and lately emphasized by the
National Convention of Chicago, should make its
welcome certain and hearty. This magazine will be
published by The Franciscan Fathers of the Sacred
Heart Province under the direction of Fr. James,
0. F. M. For particulars address The Third Order
Forum, 5045 S. Laflin St., Chicago, Illinois.

January, 1922 rj Q/iai FRANCISCA

Msgr. Wiiliam H. Ketcham

"Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the
knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are His judg-
ments and how unsearchable are His ways."— Rom. 11:33.

These words of Holy Writ were brought forcibly to
our minds when in November the news was flashed
through the country that Msgr. W. H. Ketcham, the
Director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions,
had died suddenly at Tucker, Miss. Anyone who
knew of the life-work of Monsignor Ketcham, of the
importance and magnitude of his work as Director
of the Indian Bureau, will realize the great loss sus-
tained by his untimely death. Not only the Indian
missions but the whole Church in the United States
suffers this loss. He was in his best years when
the call came, being only fifty-three years old. How
incomprehensible are the judgments and how un-
searchable are the ways of God ! In the midst of his
successful activity, with much still to be accom-
plished, Father Ketcham is called from his labors —
but this is our one great consolation — to receive his
well-merited reward. The many souls saved for
Heaven through his work, surely awaited him at the
threshold of death to conduct his beautiful soul to
the presence of God.

William H. Ketcham was born June 1, 1868, at Sum-
ner, Iowa. His parents were non-Catholics of Puritan
origin. His first education he received in the private
schools of Wills Point and Hubbard, Texas. While at
St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, La., he received the
grace of conversion and entered the Church in 1885.
Having decided for the priesthood, he went to St.
Mary's of the West Seminary at Cincinnati, 0. He
was ordained March 13, 1892, by Right Rev. T. Meer-
schaert, D. D., at Guthrie, Okla., and appointed mis-
sionary to the people of the Creek and Cherokee
Nations and of the Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory
(now Oklahoma), with headquarters at Muskogee,
Creek Nation, where he served until 1897. In that
year he was appointed to labor among the eastern
Choctaws, with headquarters at Antlers. Four years
later, in 1901, Father Ketcham was chosen Director
of the Bureau of the Catholic Indian Missions, Wash-
ington, D. C. As head of this bureau, he brought
about a number of important results; as, for instance,
cordial relations between the Government and the
bureau, and also between the Government Indian
officials and the missionaries; he abolished the
Browning ruling which took the right to choose a
school for an Indian child from the parent and vested
it in the Indian agent ; he secured recognition of the
right of the Catholic pupils in Government schools
to attend Catholic instructions; he obtained the use
of Tribal Funds for the support and education of
Indian pupils in certain mission schools to the extent
of about $125,000 a year, which is expended in full by
contract on the Indian mission schools ; he secured
the restoration of rations to children in mission
schools wherever these schools are located on ration
agencies; he obtained fee simple titles to the land
occupied by missions and schools on Indian reserva-

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tions; not to mention the large number of schools,
churches, and missions that owe their erection to his
untiring zeal.

Father Ketcham promoted in the dioceses of the
country the Society for the Preservation of the Faith
among Indian Children, which had become a great
factor in maintaining the forty-two mission schools
that do not receive any tribal assistance. He also
published the Indian Sentinel, which appeared first
as an annual, but is now a quarterly. The publica-
tion office is 2021 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
This delightful little magazine, edited under the able
direction of Miss Inno McGill, is now the official organ
of the Catholic Indian Mission Bureau. Full of inter-
est and charming in every way, it is making itself a
real necessity to all lovers of our Indian missions.
The price of $1.00 a year places it within the reach of
all. May God speed the day when it will appear
monthly.

On December 3, 1912, Father Ketcham was ap-
pointed by President Taft a member of the Board of
Indian Commissioners. On June 14, of the same
year, the degree of Doctor of Laws had been con-
ferred on him by Fordham University. At the sug-
gestion of Cardinal Gibbons and with the cordial
endorsement of Bishop Meerschaert, he was created
Domestic Prelate of His Holiness Benedict XV, in
1919, with the title of Monsignor.

In the funeral oration, delivered at Oklahoma City,
the Rev. J. F. McGuire gives us the following beauti-
ful sketch of Father Ketcjiam:

* * * "He was loved JJy bis $£<?l>le, Indian and white,
Catholic and non-Catholic, because 'they could see that
he loved them and that nothing on earth or in hell could
daunt his resolution to help and to save them. Is it won-
derful that he was called to a greater mission, that of
directing the missionary activities of the Church toward
the Indians of the whole nation, or that his bishop, with
few priests in his vicarate felt his loss as that of his
right arm? In Washington, his headquarters rather than
his home, his work brought him into close relations with
congressmen and senators, with the Commissioners of In-
dian affairs and even with presidents of the United
States, two of whom, Roosevelt and Taft, were his inti-
mate friends, as well as with Cardinal Gibbons and the
archbishops and bishops of the entire nation. He had to
fight for the rights of his Indians, especially for their
freedom of education, and well he performed his task.

He was privileged to see the great gift he had helped
others to receive, the gift of faith, obtained by his sister,
his mother and his father. May the knowledge comfort
them that in their grief they are not alone, but that in
the city of Washington, in every Catholic Church of our
land, and especially in every Indian home from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to Mexico there is
grief because Msgr. Ketcham is no more. — (Orphans'
Record, November, 1921.)

We ask all our readers to remember Msgr. Ketcham
in their prayers and at Holy Mass.

FRANCISCAN HERALD extends sincere sympathy
to The Catholic Indian Bureau, The Indian Sentinel
and the relatives on the death of this great mission-
ary. And we will earnestly beg God to send as his
successor a man who will love the poor Indians and
their missions, who will be able to defend their inter-
ests, who will watch over them and pray for them.

CHATS WITH TERTIARIES

By Fr. Giles, O. F. M.

SOME few years ago, I received
a letter from one of our read-
ers on the Pacific Coast, who
was devoting much of her time to
social service, especially among the
young people of her city. From
daily contact with juvenile delin-
quents as well as with children
whose home surroundings were of
the best, but whose impressionable
hearts were an easy prey to the
world with its bright lights and en-
ticing pleasures, she realized that
something must be done and done
quickly and energetically, if the
youth of our country is to be saved
for pure living and for God. Her-
self a fervent Tertiary of St. Fran-
cis, she naturally turned to his
Third Order for help. It was a turn
in the right direction, for the Third
Order of St. Francis, admitting, as
it does, children of fourteen years
of age into its ranks, is eminently
adapted to save them from them-
selves and from the ensnaring al-
lurements of the world; is capable
of filling their hearts with the laud-
able ambition to strive after what
is highest and noblest in the forma-
tion of character.

Before reaching their teens, most
children are too flighty and too un-
developed to appreciate at their full
value the stern obligations of life.
As they pass, however, from child-
hood to youth, their minds and
bodies seem to develop with giant
strides. They begin to realize that
care-free play is not the aim of their
existence here on earth; that life
is serious and must be taken seri-
ously. Temptations, hitherto un-
known, arise in their guileless souls
and often secure an entrance for sin
and vice before they even begin to
realize the danger. Pastors of souls
and educators in general, fully

aware of this, seek to guide and
guard the youthful souls committed
to their care during this trying
period of their life, by establishing
for them various religious and so-
cial organizations. They hope that
in this way they will be able to exer-
cise a more personal and a more
lasting influence over them. It was
for this very reason that St. Fran-
cis of Assisi — that God-sent pastor
of souls — placed fourteen years as
the age limit for the admission of
members into his Third Order— the
organization destined by Providence
to regenerate the face of the world.

Youth is the age of hero-worship
and it is constantly seeking models
for imitation. Take the average boy
of our parochial schools and ask
him who are his heroes. He will
reply with a smile and with an un-
mistakable sparkle of admiration in
his eyes: "Oh, George Washington,
Father So-and-so, and — Babe Ruth!"
or some other popular idol of the
diamond or gridiron. Ask the girls
and they will give a similar reply,
replacing the priest's and athlete's
names with those of some favorite
nun and movie actress. Children
are born imitators and they will
strive to acquire the traits of their
heroes and heroines. But where can
our Catholic youth, boys and girls,
find a more suitable model for their
imitation than in St. Francis him-
self and in that wonderful galaxy
of his sainted sons and daughters in
the Third Order?

St. Francis a model of youth? In-
deed, and a model hard to surpass.
Born of wealthy parents, he never-
theless learned at a tender age how
to combine the pleasures of youth
with innocence of character and
thus kept his soul pure at an age
when so many others don for the
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first time the livery of Satan. Thus,
too, did his mind remain free to im-
bibe those lofty ideals that charac-
terize the age of chivalry and which
have gained for him the love and
admiration of all succeeding ages.

It was the ambition of every
young man of those days to win for
himself undying fame as a knight
without reproach, and the heart of
our youthful Francis was in perfect
accord with his times. Thus we see
him, girded with the sword, bidding
farewell to the comforts of his lux-
urious home to engage as a warrior
bold in the holy wars of the Cru-
saders. When Divine Providence
defeated the realization of these ro-
mantic dreams and led him along
other paths, Francis did not change
his character nor his ideals but
merely the object of his desires.
Lady Poverty — as he chivalrously
styled his life of entire self-
abnegation — became the spouse of
his heart whom he loved and served
with a faithfulness and devotion un-
equaled in the annals of chivalry.

This characteristic Francis be-
queathed to all his spiritual chil-
dren of both sexes and perhaps by
none was he more closely copied
than by his two Tertiary children,
St. Louis IX of France and St. Eliza-
beth of Hungary, the sainted pa-
trons of his Third Order. St. Louis
is styled the most manly king and
the most kingly man that ever
graced a throne, while St. Elizabeth,
who was called to her eternal re-
ward at the early age of twenty-
four, is a most perfect model of
every maidenly virtue and womanly
accomplishment. Both became what
they were because they strove to
follow as closely as possible that
paragon of youth, St. Francis, who
could call out to them in the words

January, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

of St. Paul : "Be ye followers of me
as I also am of Christ !"

Do you wish our own boys and
girls to grace their minds and hearts
with the virtues of Louis and Eliza-
beth, then enroll them at an early
age in the Third Order of St. Fran-
cis. Teach them to imitate his vir-
tues, to acquire his traits — his un-
selfish generosity to the poor,
his high idealism, his con-
stant cheerfulness, his love
for the romantic, his horror
of duplicity, his hatred of
idleness, his fearless courage,
his knightly courtesy, his un-
ruffled temper, his genial
manner, his purity of inten-
tion, his ardent love of God
united with his whole-souled
charity toward his fellow
men — teach our boys and
girls, I say, these incompar-
able virtues that adorned the
soul of Francis, and you will
raise a generation of men and
women whose virtues will
convert the world.

At the recent National Ter-
tiary Convention here in Chi-
cago, one of the reverend
speakers told the Tertiaries
that they could not close their
eyes in death with the assur-
ance that they had been duti-
ful children of St. Francis,
unless through their personal
efforts at least one more per-
son had been secured for the
Order. He then emphasized
the fact that the first place to
seek recruits is the family
circle. I dwelt last month in
these columns on the neces-
sity of winning the men for
the Order if it is to carry out
successfully the program out-
lined for it by Holy Church,
and I do not wish to minimize
this in the least; but I do wish
to go on record here, and that
most emphatically, as urging both
the Tertiaries and their Rev. Direc-
tors to use every means in their
power to secure our youth of both
sexes for the Third Order if they
do not wish to prove recreant to
their calling. If our boys and girls
are once interested in St. Francis
and begin to imitate his virtues, it
will be an easy matter to keep alive
the interest aroused and thoroughly

to mold their characters according
to the teachings of the Seraphic
Saint. As the twig is bent so will
the tree incline. Imbue our boys
and girls on their entrance into
youth with the ideals of St. Francis
and the world will beckon to them
in vain. This is not an idle boast
nor the perfervid hope of an enthu-

A Saintly Teacher

siast, but the sound teaching of Holy
Church herself. In his jubilee en-
cyclical on the Third Order, Pope
Benedict XV exclaims: "Why
should not the numerous and vari-
ous associations of young people
* * * existing everywhere through-
out the Catholic world, join the
Third Order, and, inspired with St.
Francis' zeal for peace and charity,
devote themselves persistently to
the glory of Christ and the prosper-
ity of the Church?"

Let the Kev. Directors, therefore,
establish an extra fraternity for the
boys and girls of the parish that
the wish of the Holy Father may be
realized. Let them enroll in the
Third Order of St. Francis their en-
tire sodality of the Bl. Virgin, the
Junior Holy Name Society, and all
the other organizations they may
have in their parish, that they
may be able to give their
young charges the very best
that Holy Church has to offer
them in the matter of asso-
ciations for their spiritual
and temporal benefit. This
can not, indeed, be done over
night, but with a modicum
of good will and prudent and
persistent effort it can be ac-
complished in time. There is
absolutely no doubt in the
mind of Holy Church that the
Third Order of St. Francis is
the most perfect and the most
beneficial association she can
offer to her children in the
world to enable them most
easily to work out their eter-
nal salvation. Why, then,
should we, who are already
enjoying these benefits, not
be most anxious to make as
many as possible partakers of
our good fortune, especially
among the young, whose
future weal and woe is our
constant and greatest con-
cern ! Let this, therefore, be
our slogan, this the daily aim
of our endeavors : "Our youth
for St. Francis !"
* * *

Although I have already
taken up more space with my
Chat than I should have, I
feel that I can not well per-
mit the month of the Holy
Name of Jesus to pass by
without a word on this subject.
One of the latest efforts on the part
of Tertiaries to combat the growing
evil of unclean speech, in the course
of which the sweet Name of Jesus
is frequently dragged in the mire,
is the publication of a small card by
the Third Order Fraternity of Joliet,
Illinois, bearing the following ap-
peal.

FRANCISCAN HERALD

January, 1922

No More Indecent Stories

Do you tell snappy jokes and fast
tales? They are like sparks of wild-
fire. They spread far and travel
fast.

Suppose only one person each
month heard and enjoyed your
smutty jokes. That would make
twelve in a year. And suppose each
of these again interested only one
person a month in such tales. Even
at this slow rate the bad seed which
you sowed would multiply and bring
forth four thousand sins in a year!
That is, the hellish spark ignited by
you, burned and blackened over four
thousand souls which Christ bought
with His precious Blood! That germ
of spiritual leprosy which you spat
out inoculated over four thousand
souls with deadly poison.

And would to God that these four
thousand committed only the one
fault of listening to these smutty
jokes! But people, especially *he
young, think over these tales, re-
peat them in their mind, arouse
themselves to immoral thoughts, de-
sires, and even actions.

On account of the dangerous
germs he carries, a consumptive is
segregated, the leper quarantined;
should then foul mouths which in-
fect immortal souls be endured? A
spark of fire is guarded and extin-
guished, should then this hellish
spark of smutty tales go on like
Satan devouring countless souls
bought by Christ's suffering and
death upon the cross.

No wonder Christ said: "Woe to
that man by whom scandal cometh.
It were better for him that a mill-
stone should be hanged about his
neck and that he be drowned in the
depth of the sea." (Mt. 18: 6, 7.)

And certainly, a dirty heart is
worse than a dirty face. But how
dirty must be the heart of those who
tell filthy and smutty jokes, since
Christ says: "Out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth speaketh."
(Mt. 12: 34.)

Stop! Consider!

Reverend Directors and Tertiaries
who are interested in combating
the all too prevalent vice of filthy
talk, can secure copies of these
cards by applying to FRANCISCAN
HERALD.

RESOLUTIONS PROPOSED AND
ADOPTED

By the International Convention of the Third Order
Held at Rome, September 15-18, 1921

The Sanctification of the Tertiary

THE Convention desires that
every Tertiary should above
all be mindful of the decision
of the Church as expressed in the
new code of Canon Law concerning
Third Orders Secular.

1. Let them make daily efforts to
reach the perfection of their state.
Let them ever contemplate their
divine exemplar Jesus Christ as
also his faithful follower St. Fran-
cis and the Saints of the Third
Order; and unceasingly apply suit-
able means, in particular a special
devotion to the Blessed Eucharist
and to Mary Immaculate the Mother
of God.

2. Let them carefully study and
sedulously obey the Rule of the
Third Order which they professed,
making its practice their rule of life
and frequently examining their con-
science on this matter.

3. Let them seek the necessary
information on things Franciscan,
in order to get better acquainted
with the tradition and the spirit of
the Order and in this way become
more worthy children of the Se-
raphic Patriarch.

The Proper Direction of
Fraternities

1. The Convention desires that
all Tertiaries as far as possible use
their best endeavor to affiliate them-
selves with some definite fraternity
and to observe its obligations;
wherefore it recommends that a fra-
ternity be established where there is
a sufficient number of Tertiaries.

2. All fraternities are urged to
conform to whatever the Rule pre-
scribes for assembled members, of-
fices, meetings, donations, care of
the sick, suffrages for the deceased,
visitation of superiors, admonitions,
dismissals, ceremonies, etc.

3. It desires further that the
meetings become more and more a
real family gathering; wherefore

there should be a special place for
the meetings. Candidates and nov-
ices should be more diligently in-
structed ; and in every fraternity an
adequate Franciscan library should
be installed.

Franciscan Piety

The Convention desires every fol-
lower of St. Francis to manifest the
life of the Church of Christ which
finds in the Blessed Eucharist the
center of her love, the fountain of
grace, and the source of unwaning
joy.

Franciscan Social Reform

The Convention desires that all
Tertiaries, by their exemplary lives
and active zeal be, as it were, the
leaven of the Gospel among men
who have wandered from God, so
that they may efficaciously spread
the spirit of Christ and may imbue
society with a love for peace and
justice.

The Propagation of the Third Order

1. The Convention desires that
all children of St. Francis, as well
of the First as of the Third Order,
by every suitable means — sermons,
conferences, regular meetings, peri-
odicals, etc. — should seek to diffuse
in every direction a knowledge of
and a love for the Seraphic Patri-
arch and his work.

2. Special efforts should be made
to promote the Third Order among
men-folk and among the clergy;
and for this reason there ought
everywhere to be established fra-
ternities or sections of fraternities
for them with separate meetings,
exercises, and the like. Through
appropriate lecture courses and
committees for action they should
be duly instructed in propaganda
work for the Third Order. In addi-
tion, let them strive more and more
to have the faithful join the Third
Order, in obedience to the exhorta-
tion of the Supreme Pontiff.

3. Directors of the Third Order,

January, 192.2

FRANCISCAN HERALD

preachers, and promoters should
work hard to explain the nature of
the Third Order, because this is
essential for efficacious propagation
and furthers the education of a true
Tertiary.

The Apostolate of Tertiaries

1. The Convention desires that
every Tertiary be in his own family
circle a model of every virtue, of the
fear of the Lord and the observance
of the divine law; and that through
constant moderation the family may
be consecrated and conformed to the
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

2. Let every Tertiary support
societies with Catholic ideals wher-
ever they may be founded for the
common welfare, and properly ap-
proved. As members let them by
word and deed further the cause of
Christ and His Church, so that in
time social activity may be guided
by the spirit of Christ.

3. Putting aside all diffidence and
human respect, let every Tertiary
strive by word and deed to reinstate
Christ more perfectly in private life,
in public administrations, and in
civil laws.

4. Let every Tertiary feel him-
self in conscience bound earnestly
to advance the great work of the
Christian missions, by constantly
offering prayers, giving alms, and
fostering vocations.

The Franciscan Missions

The Convention desires that the
members of the Third Order, emu-
lating those of the First and Second
Orders in their eagerness to lead all
nations to Christ, may become apos-
tles for the missions by assisting
the missionaries and supporting
their work, so as to realize as soon
as possible the wish of Christ "that
there may be but one fold and one
shepherd."

Franciscan Devotion to the Holy See

The Convention desires that all
Franciscan Tertiaries, adhering un-
flinchingly to the Chair of St. Peter,
may in every way defend its rights,
execute its precepts, and follow its
wishes. At all times, let them be
one with the Church, fulfilling the
prayer of Christ to His Father: "I
ask Thee, Father, that they may be
one, as we also are one."

ON MAKING A HOME

By Agnes Modesta

THEIR voices floated across
the garden from the next-door
house, and entering my win-
dow clung blithely to the sunlit cor-
ners of my room. There were six
of them, happy laughing specimens
of young womanhood. Five were,
I was aware, intent upon the sixth,
who had just made an announce-
ment of deep import. I was sure
she had made it calmly, though I
could guess a slightly heightened
color and an adventurous sparkle
of smiling gray eyes. I could imag-
ine, too, that the sparkle became
more mischievous as the owner of
the gray eyes sat quiet under the
storm of excited comment her news
had evoked.

"Thrilling! But your career?"

"Are you really going to give up
your music?"

" — never dreamed you'd change
your mind."

" — were going to live your own
life!"

" — k of the opportunity you're
giving up !"

Then across this babel I heard the
decisive tones of the young hostess,
and without seeing her, I knew that
the merry twinkle had given place
to a steady light.

"I may have made a great many
silly remarks' in my time," I heard
her say coolly, "but then I hadn't
met Tom. Now, I call upon each
one of you to witness that I do here-
by solemnly recant. My vocation is
settled. And as for living my own
life — " I could hear her rippling
laugh — "That's exactly what I'm
going to do — live it to its full and
complete extent. For my new career
includes the arts and sciences of the
ages, and it is the most versatile and
comprehensive occupation known to
woman — with God's help and Tom's
— I'm going to make a home."

With God's help — and Tom's — I'm
going to make a home!

I sat back and looked gratefully
into space. There, in a nut shell,
was the perfect foundation idea of
home-making.

For, though elderly spinsters, or

widows, or the young unmarried of
the species may achieve something
in the nature of a home, and a ready-
made family may succeed in pro-
ducing the real thing with a little
of the freshness rubbed from the
edges of its joy, the fact stands that
it is to the newly planted family,
linked in co-operation with the
Creator, to whom the true and
authorized task of home-making
belongs.

"But just what do you mean by
home-making?" someone quizzes,
"House building?"

"Not always," I am able to make
answer, because here I am on
familiar ground. I have long wanted
to hold forth on true home-making,
and with this opportune query, my
chance is upon me.

Home-making does not necessarily
imply house-building, because there
are houses already built that will
serve for homes. Further, I have
known the home spirit to exist in a
city apartment, a tent or a cave, or
under the green trees and blue skies.
But it is, at best, a disembodied
spirit, something not quite of this
world. For I think few will dis-
agree when I insist that the home
spirit seems to demand a body in
which to reside. The human soul
can exist apart from the body, but
it does not as man so exist. Man,
whole and complete, consists of a
rational soul united to a physical
body. So the home, which I like to
regard as something alive and anal-
ogous to man, is complete and per-
fect only when the home-soul and
the house-body have been brought
into combination. And this, when
accomplished with the blessing of
God, is the truest kind of home-
making.

Keeping to the analogy, it is easy
to understand why, in the ideal
home-making process, there is the
simultaneous beginning of family-
soul and house-body. The Author
of Being has shown us the way by
breathing into the first beginnings
of the human body, the "vital spark
of heavenly flame."

10 FRANCISCAN HERALD January, 1922

Now, the house that is to be to appears a real duty to cultivate our It is no new thing for the Catholic
our home the body, need not be large home-making qualities, for as the Church to preserve an art from loss
nor expensive; indeed, it is better foundation-stone of the social struc- to the world. Even as the devotion
that it should grow, as we do, from ture is the home, we can do no great- of the religious orders of the Mid-
small beginnings. But it should be er service to our country than to die Ages saved the treasures of art,
capable of sheltering adequately the work toward the maintenance of a literature and science from the on-
beautiful family-soul, and it should home, complete with body and soul, rushing hordes that swept down
definitely represent the combined it is strange beyond our compre- from the north at the beginning of
forces of love. For whereas the hension that there should be so mediaeval history, so will the
mere house is but an empty shell, many modern women, who, seeming Church today send its teaching
when House-the-Body is lived in by to desire to be of service to their voice ringing thruout the world for
a 'soul, it becomes truly the abode country, take the very means that the saving of the Christian Home,
of virtue and peace that ought to mus t spell its destruction. They With the clean-cut principles of real
be for every one of us the image of suggest the earnest and aspiring Christian philosophy, Catholics will
Heaven. baby girl who, intent upon building be able to detect the errors of those

I feel sure that deep in the hearts a "bee-yu-ti-ful roof" for her house who with the best of intentions
of most of us is enshrined the mem- of blocks, helps herself liberally to walk blindly into destruction. They
ory of one such haven, the spot the bits of wood that were its foun- will retain the home and keep the
which represents in our mind the dation, and triumphantly sets the sanctity of the home-spirit alive in
site of the One Perfect Earthly last block of the roof in place just the face of the killing blight of
Home. If we have ever known a as the whole structure caves in and countless ephemeral fads and fan-
home there can be no doubt of the collapses. For it is just this thing cies. This is primarily the task of
memory. It may be a far cry from that our grown-up baby girls of all woman, the real Catholic woman,
my picture to yours, but I'll venture ages are doing. The lure of the she will insist upon the home, not
to guess that the essential qualities double wage, the "greater freedom" merely because it affords her a cer-
of united house and home-spirit are and the enticement of the apart- tain pleasure, though this may law-
in both. Else it could not stand ment house or hotel for easier liv- full y enter into its achievement, but
in our mental holy of holies as ing, mean for the social house of because the home means the preser-
Home. blocks an ostentatious roof over vation of the state, the future

„, . , , . crumbling underninnincs Surelv strength of our well-loved country,

My own home o' dreams is a wee ciumonng unuerpinnings. oureiy, ° „ ... .. . . , J ,'

Dlace set on a hill but hard bv the the manv women who advocate the and the true Catholic looks beyond
traveled highway,' for its founders replacing of women's sphere so that the present, for she knows that to
possessed that indomitable world- Jt ™y coincide with that of men, be Catholic is to be universal in be-
sroirit that cries out are earnest and sincere in their de- uef, in sympathies, in outlook.
, ,. . " ' . „ ., sire to be of good to the country. I And so she will hold together her
Let me live in my house by the side do not question their motiv es, my wee house. She will allow the
. j ^ Y 16 r °, ,. quarrel is with the wisdom of their brightness of cheery lights and the
And be a friend to man. methods. glow of a fire to spread joy over its
It is low, and spreading and gray, But some ti me the baby of the Pleasant rooms. She will have good
with a wide red chimney which tells block-house may grow up, and when books— and perhaps a yellow cat.
of the pulsing heart of a great fire- that happens it is to be hoped that But should any or all of these things
place inside. It is easy to forget the really mature per sons who have P rove to be impossible of realiza-
the furnishings of this house, be- surr0U nded her may have been able tion ' sne will have at least the spirit
cause they were subservient to the to arrest the threatened catastrophe of home in her family's heart. There
need which they filled, but the cling- to her house, so that she may be will be the gentle all-pervading per-
ing memory remains of a large table able to start h er new age uncrushed fume of family love and harmony;
upon which the entire family could by disillusion. This part of the there will be that love of God which
pile its books; big chairs with com- « grown _ up » must be taken bv mod- is the foundation of all love; there
fortable hollows in their depths, ern Cat holic women, and by all will be the love of parents, and the
glowing lamps beneath which little other modern women who see be- happy laughing love of children lit-
and big could read or sew, or simply yond the horizon of their limited t le and bie The trreat litrht of that
sit and look and finally-0 finish- spher e. These must busy them- g£ , J f ^ J he ^unshfne of joy
ing touch of charm— a monstrous <,„!,,-„ tft : nBprt „ pw f n ,, n Hatirm sunshine ot joy,
yellow cat purring his blissful song ^ as° fist" thfold ont Z and ?». "ft? °' that h J» e **£
on the hearth-rug. taken away. The structure will not a certain little House of Nazareth.
I think in the best of women, in- retain its original strength under So ' wlU the modern Cathohc woman,
deed, in nearly all women, there lies this constant change to be sure, but, in harm ony with the modern Catho-
the home-making desire. Some please God, it may be saved from a lic man - and the grace of God, sue-
hardly realize its possession, and real downfall until the misguided ce ed to the full in that sublime
others, from one or another reason, and hard-working youngster grows earthly task — a task that gives man
wage a constant warfare against it. big enough to realize the danger of special kinship with the Creator —
But to us who are Catholic, there her present course of action. the making of a home.

January, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

?|pmn to tfje JMp Jgame

O Jesus, my Jesus, each
time I repeat
Thy dear and adorable
Name,
A pleasure I feel, so de-
lightful and sweet,
It creates in my heart a
new flame.

When tepid, new fervor I
gain by Thy Name,
In trouble it brings to me
peace,
Nor weary I grow with re-
peating the same,
For to praise it my lips
would not cease.

A thousand times over, my
Jesus, each day,
On Thy sacred Name
were I to call,
The joy that it gives me
would never decay.
For in Jesus is centered
my all.

Oh, be thou a Jesus to me
whilst I live,
Thy Name deep engrave
in this heart.
That all its affections to
Thee it may give,
Nor e*er from Thy sweet
love depart.

Be a Jesus to me on the sad
bed of death,
My pains and my an-
guish relieve,
Repeating Thy Name may I
breathe my last breath.
Then Jesus, my spirit re-
ceive.

Be a Jesus to me thro' eter-
nity's year,
Oh, in those fair regions
above,
How bright will the fruit of
redemption appear,
Jesus, gained here for
my love I

Selected

THIRD ORDER CALENDAR

1. Circumcision of our Lord, New

Year's Day — Holy day of obliga-
tion. (Gen. Absolution. PI en.
Ind.)

2. Feast of the Most Holy Name of

Jesus. (Plen. Ind.)— BB. Benti-
vogli and Gerard, Confessors of
the I Order.

4. Bl. Angela, Widow of the III Order.

(Plen. Ind.)

5. Epiphany of our Lord. (Gen. Abso-

lution. Plen. Ind.)

16. SS. Berard and Companions, Mar-
tyrs of the I Order. (Plen. Ind.)

19. BB. Thomas, Charles, and Bernard,
Confessors of the I Order. (Plen.
Ind.)

28. BB. Roger, Giles, and Odoric, Con-
fessors of the I Order. (Plen.
Ind.)

30. St. Hyacintha, Virgin of the II

Order. (Plen. Ind.)

31. BB. Louise and Paula, Widows of

the III Order. (Plen. Ind.)
Besides the days indicated above, Ter-
tiaries can gain a Plenary Indulgence:

1. Every Tuesday, if, after Confession
and Holy Communion, they visit a
church of the First or Second Order or
of the Third Order Regular of St. Fran-
cis while the Bl. Sacrament is exposed
and there pray for the intention of the
Pope. If Tertiaries live at a great dis-
tance from a Franciscan church, the
visit may be made in their own parish
church.

2. Once every month, on any suitable
day. Conditions: Confession, Commu-
nion, visit to any church, and some
prayers there for the intention of the
Pope.

3. On the day of the monthly meeting.
Conditions: Confession, Communion,
visit to any church, and some prayers
there for the intention of the Pope.

4. On the first Saturday of every
month. Conditions: Confession, Com-
munion, some prayers for the intention
of the Pope, and besides some prayers
in honor of the Immaculate Conception
of the Bl. Virgin Mary.

General Absolution, also called In-
dulgenced Blessing, can be received by
Tertiaries on January 1 and 6. This
Absolution may be imparted to Terti-
aries also in the confessional on the day
preceding these feasts or on the feasts
themselves, or on any day during the
week following.

THE FRANCISCANS IN NEW MEXICO

By Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt, O. F. M.

CHAPTER XXXVI

Various Governors — Expeditions — List of Custodios of the Period — Expedition of Gov. Vargas — Takes

Santa Fe — Threatens Death for Injuring Indians — Evidences of Christianity at Zuni — Results

of the Expedition — Varga's Second Expedition — Franciscans Who Went Along

ACCORDING to Fr. Silvestre
de Escalente, Governor An-
tonio de Otermin was suc-
ceeded, in August, 1683, by Don
Domingo Jironza Petris de Cruzate.
The latter in 1686 was supplanted by
Don Pedro Reneros de Posada, who
ruled till 1689 when Cruzate was re-
appointed. Early in 1691 Don Diego
de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de
Leon began his eventful term as
governor.

As early as 1683, the king of Spain
gave orders that every effort should
be made, but with the slightest ex-
pense possible, to recover the lost
Province of New Mexico. Governor
Posada accordingly led an expedi-
tion into the territory as far as the
pueblo of Zia. Besides capturing
some horses and sheep, however, he
accomplished nothing. Whether
any Franciscans accompanied the
soldiers on the hasty venture is not
recorded.

In the fall of 1689 Governor Cru-
zate undertook to reduce the rebel
pueblos to obedience. When his ex-
pedition arrived at Zia, he found the
Indians well fortified. A bloody bat-
tle ensued in which the rebels de-
fended themselves with such valor
and fury that many allowed them-
selves to be burnt alive on their
housetops rather than surrender.
The number of Queres Indians, of
this pueblo as well as of Santa Ana,
and of others who had come to suc-
cor the besieged, left dead in this
battle amounted to 600 of both sexes
and of different ages. Only four old
men (medicinemen or sorcerers)

were captured alive. They were
executed in the plaza of the pueblo.
There is no evidence that the ex-
pedition accomplished anything
else. 1 No friars seem to have ac-
companied the troops. Early in
1691, as already indicated, Vargas
came up to El Paso and assumed the
governorship.

During these years after the re-
volt, 1680-1691, the Custodes of
New Mexico, according to their
Autos-de-Visita in the Baptismal
Registers 2 of Guadalupe (Juarez),
were Fr. Nicolas Hurtado, the
senior definidor, it seems, who had
escaped from the massacre in 1680,
and who served till 1864; Fr. Sal-
vador de San Antonio, 1684-1687;
Fr. Nicolas Lopez, 1687-1689; and
Fr. Francisco de Vargas, 1689-1691.
In a circular, dated Zenecu, October
20, 1691, Fr. Diego de Mendoza, an-
nounced to the friars that he had
been appointed Custos of the Fran-
ciscans in New Mexico by the
Definitorium of the Province of the
Holy Gospel, Mexico. This docu-
ment is the first of its kind still ex-
tant. 3

1 Escalante, Carta, Nos. 1 and 9.

2 The Mission of Our Lady of Guadalupe del
Paso del Norte wns founded by Pr. Garcia de
San Francisco y Zufiiga on December 8, 1G59.
but the Register begins with a baptism admin-
istered in February, 1602. Before the appear-
ance of the Carranza and Villa rowdies the
Registers of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials
were preserved in the vestry of the parochial
church, Juarez. They were probably the only
set of Church Registers dating as far back as
the middle of the 17th century, except those of
St. Augustine, Florida, which are also com-
plete but date from June 2, r >, 1">!H. hence thev
are the oldest in the United States.

3 Libro de Patentes de San Antonio de Ze-
necu.

During the same period the Vice-
Custodios, as per dates of their
Autos-de-Visita at Juarez, were Fr.
Juan Munoz de Castro, November
19, 1685; Fr. Pedro Gomez, August
9, 1688; Fr. Diego de Mendoza, Oc-
tober 19, 1688; Fr. Joachim de Ino-
josa, August 30, 1692; and Fr. Juan
Alvarez, December 2, 1693.

Vargas, soon after his arrival at
El Paso del Norte, began to collect
men, ammunitions, and provisions
for an expedition into New Mexico.
The viceroy, Conde de Galve, prom-
ised him a small force of fifty Span-
ish soldiers from the presidio of
Parral, but when by the month of
August, 1692, they failed to appear,
the impatient governor resolved to
proceed northward without them.
Although he had been able to enlist
but fifty-four Spaniards and one
hundred Indians, Vargas on August
16, sent these troops ahead, and on
August 21 he himself set out ac-
companied by three unarmed Fran-
ciscans, Fr. Francisco Corvera, Fr.
Miguel Muniz de Luna, 4 and Fr.
Cristobal Alonso Barroso. Vargas
overtook his ridiculously small
"army" on August 24. Cautiously
they marched until September 9,
when they camped at an entirely
ruined village. They had not en-
countered a single Indian. Here
Vargas left a portion of his sup-
plies in order to be able to travel
more rapidly. The place, called
Mejia, was therefore surrounded
with a stockade, and Captain Rafael
Tellez with fourteen Spaniards and

' Read has Nunez.

January, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

fifty Indians put in charge. With
only forty men and fifty Indians, ac-
companied by the three friars, Var-
gas now set out to reconquer the
rebel pueblos. It seemed a mad un-
dertaking, and more like a forlorn
hope. The distance from the camp
to Cochiti, the Indian stronghold,
was eighteen leagues.

Leaving Mejia at three o'clock in
the afternoon, Vargas and his fol-
lowers reached the vicinity of
Cochiti at about three o'clock
in the morning, when they dis-
covered that the Indians had
fled. Supposing them to have
retreated to the pueblo of San-
to Domingo, three leagues
down the Rio Grande, the Span-
iards remounted, and at sun-
rise arrived at Santo Domingo,
which they found deserted.
After resting till three in the
afternoon, Vargas proposed to
surprise the rebels at Santa
Fe, ten leagues distant, at day-
break. His brave troops readi-
lyagreed, whereupon the march
was resumed. Three leagues
beyond a halt was made at the
village of Cieneguilla. After
sunset the commander gave the
men a short exhortation, and
then all continued the march
in silence until eleven in the
night. After resting till two
o'clock in the morning, all were
aroused and prepared as for
battle. Every man realized the
risk he was running, but no one
flinched. They made the Act
of Contrition and recited the
Confiteor, as was customary on
such occasions, and Fr. Cor-
vera pronounced the general abso-
lution over the gallant warriors.
He also offered fervent suppli-
cations to Almighty God and to
His holy Mother in behalf of the
men who were to face the enemy in-
trenched at Santa Fe. Thus for-
tified the soldiers were ready to en-
gage the very demons. Vargas
issued his orders, and then the little
band took the road to Santa Fe,
which they sighted about four
o'clock in the morning of September
13.

The Indians were on the alert,
however, and crowded the walls of
the town and the housetops. Var-
gas had the water supply cut off,

and then offered pardon to all who
would lay down their arms and sub-
mit to the Spanish rule and return
to the Church. They refused, and
moreover declared that they would
die rather than surrender. Later
in the day, after much parleying,
the rebels yielded. On the follow-
ing day, the feast of the Exaltation
of the Holy Cross, September 14,
1692, Fr. Escalente relates, they
rendered formal obedience and

Fr. Zephyrin, O. F .M.

were absolved from their apostasy
by Fr. Francisco Corvera. Gover-
nor Vargas next took formal pos-
session of the capital (Santa Fe)
and the territory of New Mexico in
the name of Carlos II, king of Spain.
The Te Deum Laudamus entoned
by Fr. Corvera closed the solemn
act.

In the evening of September 21,
1692, the fifty Spanish soldiers at
last came up from the presidio of
Parral. They joined Vargas at Ga-
listeo next day. The governor now
had ninety fighting men. With them,
and some auxiliaries under Don
Luis Tupatii, he joined the Indian
chief who had succeeded the arch-

rebel Pope in command of the
rebels, and who had voluntarily sur-
rendered along with two hundred
warriors, and was now a staunch
friend of the Spaniards. With his
little army and the three religious,
Vargas visited all the pueblos of
the territory. Opposition was en-
countered, it is true; but the pru-
dence and magnanimity of the gov-
ernor finally succeeded in winning
the confidence of the people so that
they submitted, and in turn
they received the absolution
from their apostasy from Fr.
Corvera, and the pardon of the
governor for their misdeed
during the revolt. Only at
Jemez the governor met with
persistent obstinacy and per-
fidy. The Indians here did
everything to provoke the
Spaniards; but Vargas had
threatened the death penalty to
anyone who should in any way
injure an Indian, no matter
what the provocation. Even
the distant Moqui surrendered,
likewise those of Acoma on
their all but impregnable rocky
height, on November 4. The
Zunis, owing to the Apache
hostilities, were easily per-
suaded to yield. The inhab-
itants of five pueblos had re-
tired to the Rock of Caquima,
where Vargas found them on
November 11. Here alone of
all the pueblos evidences of the
Christian Faith were discov-
ered. In a small compartment
belonging to an Indian woman,
the governor found an altar
neatly adorned on which two
tallowcandleswereburning. In addi-
tion there were an image of Christ
Crucified, a canvas picture of St.
John the Baptist, some sacred ves-
sels, an ostensorium, and some mis-
sals. All these articles were covered
with remnants of vestments. This
discovery deeply affected the gov-
ernor and a number of officers who
had also entered the little room. In
proof of their gratitude they em-
braced the Indian chiefs, and as-
sured them of their special friend-
ship.

When peace had thus been re-
stored all over the territory, Vargas
led his expedition back to El Paso
where he arrived on December 20,

FRANCISCAN HERALD

January, 1922

1692, having travelled more than six
hundred leagues since August 21.
"It was a wonderful campaign,"
Don Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora
concludes his Mercurio Volante.
"Without the waste of an ounce of
powder, without drawing a sword,
and, what is more worthy of note
and admiration, without the cost of
a penny to the royal treasury, in-
numerable people were brought
back to the fold of the Catholic
Church, and the entire dominion
was restored to his royal Majesty,
Carlos II. No Spaniard was found
by the whole province, because all
those who lived there at the time of
the revolt, save those who escaped
to El Paso, had perished. Seventy-
four captive m stizos, however,
were set at liberty, and 2,214 chil-
dren 5 received baptism." 6

5 Escalante, Carta, No. 10, says : "Those
baptized in all the pueblos of the Tanos, Pi-
curies, and Taos were 926. Bancroft, New
Mexico, p. 201, writes that at Zuui alone
about 300 children were baptized.

Mercurio Volante, pp. 1-22. Courtesy of
Mr. Read. A complete English translation
will be found in Read's History of New Mex-
ico, pp. 275-291.

Governor Vargas sent a detailed
account of his successful expedition
to the viceroy, and at the same time
asked for permission to repeople
the recovered territory. The peti-
tion was granted. Vargas succeeded
in enlisting about one hundred sol-
diers and seventy families of col-
onists, in all about 800 individuals.

The Franciscans supplied seven-
teen friars, as follows : Fr. Salvador
de San Antonio, Custos, Fr. Diego
Zienos, Secretary, Fr. Juan de Zava-
leta, Fr. Juan de Alpuente, Fr. Juan
Mufioz de Castro, Fr. Antonio Car-
bonel, Fr. Francisco Corvera, Fr.
Juan Antonio del Corral, Fr. An-
tonio Obregon, Fr. Buenaventura
Contreras, Fr. Jos6 Narvaez Val-
verde, and Fr. Juan Daza, of the
Province of the Holy Gospel, Mex-
ico; and Fr. Francisco de Jesus
Maria Casaiias, Fr. Jose Diez, Fr.
Geronimo Prieto, Fr. Antonio Ba-
hamonde, Fr. Domingo de Jesus
Maria, of the Missionary College of
Queretaro. Three other friars of
the same College, Fr. Miguel de
rp '-icio, Fr. Jose Garcia, and Fr. Bias

Navarro, came up a little later, but
reached Santa Fe before the close
of the year. 7

The expedition left the vicinity of
El Paso on October 13, 1693; but it
was anything rather than a trium-
phal march. The scarcity of provi-
sions and cold weather wrought
havoc among the colonists, espe-
cially among the women and chil-
dren. Thirty of them died from
hunger or from exposure before the
people arrived at Santo Domingo in
the beginning of December. Santa
Fe was at last reached, but it re-
quired several months before the
hostility of many of the pueblos was
overcome. 8

7 Fr. Espinosa, Crdnica. A.postolica, pp. 92.
See also Read, Ncir Mexico, pp. 296 ; Bancroft,
.Yeir Mexico, pp. 204.

s Espinosa. Crdnica, pp. 260, 2S2-284 ; ; Ar-
ricivita, Crdnica Ucru/ica, pp. 176, 198-200;
Bancroft, pp. 202-213 ; Read, pp. 293-314.

Note. — Ape and infirmities compel the
writer to discontinue the narrative, and to
utilize what strength remains in order to com-
plete the history of the California Missions.
He hopes and prays, however, that some abler
friar, on the scene of former missionary ac-
tivity, may take up the thread of the nar-
rative, and continue it to modern times. The
task will be much easier, inasmuch as the
historical material is rich and interesting and
within react

MY GOOD INDIANS AT KOLDEPAT-WA

IN THE southern part of Arizona,
where the present writer is
working for the spiritual and
temporal welfare of the Indians, is
a little village called K61depat-wa.
Although, if done into English, this
melodious name would read "Old
Dead Man's Pond," its inhabitants,
as the following story will prove,
are by no means dead men and their
way of doing things not at all old-
fashioned.

Early last fall, on my rounds
through the missions, I came to
K61depat-wa and gave the Indians
an opportunity to attend Holy Mass
and receive the Sacraments. It was
a week day and, for our Indians at

By Fr. Justin, O. F. M.

Missionary in Arizona

least, also a work day. But that did
not hinder the villagers from heed-
ing the summons of their padre and
coming to the — I almost said church
— to the little hut where everything
was already prepared for the sacred
ceremonies. Needless to say, the
good will of these children of the
desert made me happy. I did not
know at the time what a pleasant
surprise they were preparing for
me; else my eyes would surely have
filled with tears of joy. Nor would
I have found it out even that day,
had not the village interpreter let
the cat out of the bag.

I was taking a little lunch, after
Holy Mass, when the interpreter, in

the course of our conversation,
asked me when I should visit them
again.

"That's more than I know," I re-
plied; "if all goes well, in a month
or so. I'll let you know in good
time."

"Well, padre," with an air of sat-
isfaction, "by that time we'll have
a church."

"A church?"

"Yes, a real church."

"Why, where is it?" I asked, non-
plussed.

"Well, padre, it isn't built yet;
but you may be sure it will be the
next time you come."

"And who is going to build it?"

January, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

Typical Indian Chapel Still in Use in
Many Places in Arizona

They

Knowing, too, how my children
of "Old Dead Man's Pond"
were forging ahead with their
church, I applied for and ob-
tained permission to bless and
dedicate the new edifice as
soon as I should be called upon.
It was Sunday afternoon,
last October 30. I was sitting
in my room here at Sells, busy
with some important corre-
spondence. Naturally, my
thoughts just then were miles

away from Koldepat-wa. Not

even did I immediately recognize

as one of its inhabitants the Indian

youth who was ushered into my and promised to come to their aid

One of the Modern Mission Chapels

Built by the Franciscans to Replace the

Mud and Straw Chapels

wherever and whenever I could,
sick-call," I That, after Holy Mass, all enjoyed
the note he the fiesta is self-evident,
feeling of joy The new church at Koldepat-wa,
though not exactly a magnificent
cathedral as to architectural lines
of beauty and richness of decorative

"The men of the village
will begin work today."

The reader can imagine how great

my joy was when, on leaving that presence

afternoon for the next mission sta- "Very likely a

tion, I saw the men and boys gath- thought, unfolding

ered in one end of the village, some handed me. What i

preparing the site they had selected cam e over me, however, when I

for their church, and others fash- rea d: "Come, Father, bless our

ioning soft clay into adobe bricks, church. It is finished."

Indians, too, are human and a word Neither the Koldepat-wa Indians display, is still a worthy edifice and

of * ncouragement g06S a far Way n ° r their solicitous P adre wiU ever surel y Phasing to Him Who had a

<<w if" 1 ' u forget what they witnessed on word of praise and encouragement
Well, now, that s fine," I said in Thursday, November 3, the day on even for the poor widow's mite. The
as good Indian as I could. How which their first church at that little structure is built of adobe and
happy they were and how readily place was dedicated to their holy is 24 feet long, 14 feet wide, and 8
they all agreed to do their share of patron, St. Thomas. To lend special feet high. The mud floor and ceil-
the work gratis, if I would provide solemnity to the occasion, the In- ing are untouched by anything that
tftem with what their hands and im- dians had invited many friends from reminds one of human luxury. In
plements could not make. As the neighboring villages to be present the center is an adobe pillar sup-
event showed, they kept their word at the dedication of the church and porting the mud roof. The four in-
and worked with a will. to take part in the fiesta which, in side walls and the outside front
keep my promise, I obtained keeping with good custom, they had wall are plastered and white-
four half-windows (2x3 feet), a arranged. It was touching, indeed, washed. On either side are two
suitable door (2y 2 x6y 2 feet), and to see these simple people accom- half-windows, while on the roof over
some rough lumber to make frames panying their padre around the the front door— in fact, the only
door and windows. Though church, carrying candles and holy door— rises a little adobe stand on
second-hand, all this material was pictures, and joining in the prayers which to place the cross. The altar,
m pretty good condition. Then I and songs. I need not mention that too, is of adobe and for the day of
procured hinges for the door and in my sermon during the Holy Mass the dedication it was uniquely deco-
*^°_ glass candlesticks, I praised the people for their zeal rated with paper flowers of every

shape and col-

windows
two flower
vases, and a
few artificial
flowers. When
I got through
shopping and
summed up my
expenditures, I
found that the
entire outlay
amounted to a
little less than
$25, a small
sum in itself
but a fortune
in the eyes of
missionary
in Arizona.

SANTA CLARA MISSION CHURCH AND SCHOOL, ARIZONA
Type of Mission Chapel and School Your Alms Will Help to Build and Support

or.

Such then is
the newchurch
a t Koldepat-
wa and such
the story of its
building — i n
truth, a monu-
ment proclaim-
ing the spirit
of faith and
enterprise with
which my chil-
dren of "Old
Dead Man's
Pond" are im-
bued.

WHO WINS

By Blanche Weitbreg
I

A PALL of fog lay over the bay like a blanket
of cotton wool, hiding the distant sparkle of
the city and putting out the sentinel lights
that toss their arms about each night to guide the
wayfarers of the water into safe channels. The
warning voices of the sirens wailing through the
smother reached with a muffled mournfulness the
ears of Geoffrey Lee, as he stood at an opened window
of his firelit studio, looking toward the Golden Gate.
He loved the peace and isolation of the little pic-
turesque, precipitous island, where, after wander-
ing and tempestuous years, he had made himself a
haven. At thirty, he reflected, a man may with a
clear conscience settle down to reap the fruits of toil
and increase his bank account. Signing one's emi-
nent name to canvases is pleasant work, and cashing
comfortable checks equally pleasant: he contem-
plated with satisfaction the indefinite continuance of
both occupations. He was in splendid health; the
last traces of those South American days that had
come so near to wrecking him had worked out of his
system, and Dr. Kosaloff, when he mauled him about
yesterday, had grunted the hoped for final approval,
and told him to "forget it." He went home filled with
a determination to obey orders, signed his name to
a completed canvas this very next afternoon, and
now, after a delicious dinner served in his tiny din-
ing room below stairs by the most perfect old house-
keeper that ever a lucky bachelor captured, he was
going to sit down to a long evening's reading.

He shut the window and turned away from the fog
blanketed world to the restful warmth of the studio.
He took his book, tipped the drop-light at exactly the
right angle, stretched out his feet to the fire, and
lay back in his chair for a luxurious moment of re-
laxation. Against the wall above the wide mantel
shelf where the French clock ticked gaily and his
favorite Chinese vases flaunted their rich colors, he
had hung the huge bronze crucifix that he had brought
back with him from Rio, two years ago. It had lain
stored away until last week, but now that everything
was settled, now that his beloved air-castles had
materialized into wood and stone and desirable fur-
nishings, he would no longer deny the Master of the
castle His rightful place. The enthronement had
been accomplished with considerable difficulty, be-
cause he allowed no one to help him, shutting the

door in the anxious faces of the perfect housekeeper
and the able-bodied gardener, and struggling for
hours with screws and pulleys, hooks and hammers,
till the heavy ornate cross with its precious burden
hung safely just where he had so often mentally pic-
tured it. Geoffrey was no devotee; it was, to him,
simply correct and proper that the King of Kings and
Lord of Lords should be given a place of honor,
treated with respect and reverence. He had not for-
gotten his Sovereign's claims, whether in the capitals
of Europe or the jungles of South America, and in
jungle and town had kept himself clean. In this, he
had nothing with which to reproach himself.

He lay back now, watching the play of the fire-
light on the suffering figure ; it was, he thought, really
a most exquisite piece of work. He had done a good
job, too, in the hanging; the placing was just right.
He hoped the screws would hold; what a mess, if it
loosened up! The beam had split a little in the bor-
ings, but it was hard, seasoned timber.

Lucas had helped him get that crucifix. What an
absurd price he had paid for it, with the last cash he
could scrape together! Well, it was worth every dol-
lar ... . though he might have used the money
better.

He drew a hand over his eyes, and sat up abruptly,
throwing down his book. Lucas! Lucas Rezzo! Two
whole years since they had parted. "Hasta la vista,
amigo!" Lucas had said: and never a word or sign
since — never a word. A smile, a wave of the hand —
and Lucas had dropped out of his life. He had tried
to trace the little Spaniard, from what he managed
to learn of him in Ecuador, six months later; but
Lucas had vanished. When Geoffrey made up his
mind to settle in California, he had, as a last resort,
sent his bank address to his friend's old banking
house in Rio, with a vague idea that if Lucas ever
turned up in his former haunts it might be the means
of re-establishing communication. That was eight
months ago. Nothing had come of it as yet, but there
was a possibility — ah, surely there was always a
possibility

He had been afraid of this. If the sight of the
crucifix was going to do this sort of thing to him, he
would be obliged to reconsider a bit. It is rather
tragic, when the only human being who has ever
meant anything vital to a man disappears like a puff
of smoke, but regrets avail nothing. Geoffrey had

January, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

tried to make up his mind to forget Lucas. He had,
probably, thirty or forty years yet to live, and one
couldn't carry that kind of thing around one one's
back for forty years. Lucas was dead, undoubtedly.
It was all over. It was no use to think, and wonder,
and wish. . . . And yet — if Lucas could be sitting

just there on the other side of the fire He

wouldn't have lost that funny little trick of lifting one
eyebrow, and he would fling back his head to get the
hair out of his eyes. He would say, "Gofredo, mio,"
perhaps.

Geoffrey sprang up, walking the length of the room
and back, and coming to halt under the great cruci-
fix.

"I wonder," he said, aloud. "I wonder, after all, if
I can stand it." He rested his arms upon the mantel
shelf and looked up into the eyes of Christ. He was
not much in the habit of asking favors ; he hesitated
now. Then his head went down on his arms. "Ah,
give him back to me," he whispered.

The fog moved in billows and waves across the
Bay; it climbed the Sausalito hills and veered up
into the valley; and Geoffrey, standing again at an
open window several hours later, saw that it was
thinning. The light on Angel Island pricked feebly
through it now, the voices of the sirens sounded
clearer; he could catch the yellow blur of the boat
landing below him. A sudden gust of wind tore at
the gray pall, and revealed the little steamer from
Sausalito docking to discharge belated passengers.
He glanced at his watch; it was midnight. He hoped
the sirens wouldn't blow all night. Oh, yes, the fog
was thinner. He would go to bed.

Yet still he stood, leaning against the window cas-
ing, staring down the slopes beneath him to the is-
land edge, where the steamer backed and fussed.

"Missed it," he muttered, as a badly cast hawser
fell with a splash into the water. "That fellow's al-
ways half asleep anyhow. Whew! I'm half asleep
myself."

The gang-plank was lowered, and two men came up
the pier together.

"Looks like Kosaloff," thought Geoffrey. "Big
enough to be — yes, it's Kosaloff, all right. I can tell
his walk." Still he stood idly, watching the pair.
"Wonder who the little lame chap is? A patient,
maybe. Seems to have luggage along. Doc's helping
him. H'm. Last time I saw Lucas he had on a hat
like that — oh, Lord !

He slammed the window shut, and flung himself
down on a couch, pressing his clenched hands over
his eyes.

He was possessed! For hours he had done nothing
but brood over the fire, thinking of Lucas Rezzo. Was
Lucas thinking of him? Was there some telepathic
force at work? Was he going to hear news of Lucas?
Going to hear of — of his death ?

The sweat broke out all over Geoffrey's body.
Dead! Oh, it couldn't be — it must not be! Yes; but
he had already made up his mind to just that. Lucas

was dead; he certainly was dead, or there would
have been some word, some message — something!

He tried to shut out the picture that rose before
him: the lithe figure, the graceful head with the mop
of straight soft hair tumbling over the whimsical

brows, the eyes Someone had said, once, that

Lucas was too much like a little black jaguar — per-
haps he had felt Lucas' claws! Geoffrey smiled, re-
membering the boy's gift of repartee. Three years
they had run about together, trailed the jungles,
nursed each other through fever and malaria, gone

broke and starved, picked up again, gone on

Then Geoffrey, shattered in health, but with a treas-
ure of inspiration, shipped steerage for the States
and hit very near the bull's eye on the target of fame.
Now it was all velvet. He had retrieved his health
(good old Kosaloff!) and Fortune was making him a
tractable, obedient wife. Money, position, prospects
— and he felt, suddenly, that he would forfeit it all
for the sound of Lucas Rezzo's voice.

Why, oh, why, had he left Lucas, just on the edge
of that doubtful bit of finance? Sick, too: just as
sick as Geoffrey had been. But Lucas had urged,
argued, insisted — and he had gone. So all this — he
glanced about the big room with its high beamed ceil-
ing where the dying firelight played hide and seek —
all this was built on selfishness!

Enough! He had been over that ground before —
heavens, how often he had thrashed out the thing.
A man has a right to his own life. Lucas wouldn't
have expected or asked — God, no! when did Lucas
ever ask anything? Oh, but just for a sight of him —
just for a sight of him!

He lifted his head. Someone at the door? Here?
At such an hour? He rose and crossed the room,
passing out into the hallway. The main hall and
studio of this hillside house, entered from the level
of the drive, occupied the entire upper floor; the
bedrooms and dining room were below. He bent over
the dark well of the staircase to listen. Yes, that
was the bell he heard, ringing down in the kitchen.
He hoped it wouldn't wake Mrs. Courtland. What in
the world was anyone doing, at this time of night —
someone ill? It might be Kosaloff who had seen his
windows lighted and come over for a smoke before
going on home.

He snapped on the hall lamp, and opened the door.
From the foggy blackness of the night, a figure in a
long coat and broad-brimmed hat stepped softly, like
a shadow. Geoffrey backed away, his hands before
him, stretched stiffly. He heard his own gasping
cry

"My dear fellow!" came a purring, caressing mur-
mur, out of a ridiculous world where things simply
would not hold steady. "My— my — Amigo mio!
Amigo mio!"

He dragged Lucas into the studio, and set all the
lights going; he pulled off Lucas' fog-soaked over-
coat, he threw Lucas' bag and dripping hat six ways
for Sunday, and caught the slender figure by the
shoulders. Oh, it wasn't real — it was a miracle

FRANCISCAN HERALD

January, 1922

"Lucas! Lucas! Lucas!" He could fairly have
kissed him, Spanish fashion, so he shook him instead,
half beside himself, till he felt the other wincing in
his grip.

His fingers loosened; he stood flushing and
ashamed, looking down into the laughing lifted eyes,
green-gray under the black brows and lashes: had he
ever seen the Bay on a foggy morning without think-
ing of Lucas' eyes?

"Lucas! Lucas! But it's magic! Out of

nothing, like this! Where have you come from, and
when, and how? Did Kosaloff show you the house?
I saw him come off the boat just now, but — It's
simply a miracle, that's all! Why, I've been thinking
about you all evening, and wishing, and — Sit down,
sit down — you must be chilled — can't I get you some-
thing to eat? I'll make up the fire; sit here — Will
you have a little brandy? Wasn't it cold, crossing
the Bay? And you've brought your bag — Oh, good
God!"

It was suddenly just too much. He sank down, with
his head on Lucas' knees, shaking from head to foot.
Out of the night — out of the night of his loneliness
and longing. Lucas had come back to him.

A light hand moved across his hair.

"Gofredo — Gofredo mio. . . ."

Below stairs, presently, in the dining room, Lucas
set out silver and china while Geoffrey dashed about
kitchen and pantry forgetful of any consideration
for a housekeeper's slumbers. He laughed and talked
deliriously.

"Find the chocolate pot?" he inquired, bouncing in
with a sauce pan in each hand. "Top shelf, I think,
old man — back of the — yes, that's it — can you reach
— Why, Lucas! But — What's the matter with you?
Why— why, you're lame!"

Lucas stepped off the chair and set the chocolate
pot on the table, smiling. His swarthy skin had
taken the color of chalk.

"Yes," he said. "Does it need washing, or is your
cook to be trusted?"

"Lucas ! Why "

"The milk's boiling over," remarked Lucas. "I hear
it." The eyes that met Geoffrey's were like points of
ice.

Geoffrey turned back into the kitchen and lifted
the milk off the stove. His hands were trembling.
Something horrible had risen up before him — some-
thing dark and threatening. He stood quietly a
moment to steady himself.

"Shall I p-pour some hot water in to heat the pot?"
inquired a soft voice. The sound of the familiar lit-
tle stammer sent a wave of relief over him. Lucas,
he remembered, had that odd way of stammering
when he was feeling a bit tender, and was too shy or
too proud to express it.

"Yes." Geoffrey nodded, with averted eyes. "Ket-
tle's boiling, isn't it? Do let me cook you some ham
and eggs, or "

"My dear fellow, I had a most extravagant dinner,

at the Palace. Just the chocolate, please, and a
cracker — r-r-really, that's all."

"A scrap of a sandwich? Cheese?"

"Will you eat with me?"

"I will, if it's the last thing I ever do!"

"Bueno! Cheese, then," agreed Lucas.

"I swear this is the most extraordinary thing that's
ever happened to me," declared Geoffrey, ten min-
utes later, as they sipped their chocolate. "That
you should pop down out of my dreams — just like a
play, you know! I'd been — well — pretty near to
praying about you. tonight: and right on top of it —
a miracle!"

"A miracle?"

What was the matter with Lucas' eyes? Here was
the second time within a few minutes that they had
changed like that. He was tired out, perhaps

"What is there so very extraordinary about it?"
demanded Lucas. "I got in this morning; I had your
bank address; I was very busy and couldn't come over
any earlier. I wanted to surprise you, so I took a
chance on finding you at home. Then I met that
doctor — what's his name — Kosaloff? — when we
changed at Sausalito, and he pointed out the house."

"But I've been thinking of you, all eve "

"Because I was thinking of you."

"But "

"It's very flattering to be regarded as a visitation
from heaven," purred Lucas.

"I want to explore your island," he announced,
after breakfast the next morning. They were stand-
ing on the glass-porch which flanked the south side
of the studio, hopefully watching the sun's unequal
battle with the remnants of last night's fog. "It's
a most romantic spot."

"Yes. It's rather Italian than United-States-of-
America, I think. It's a sort of little world in itself,
too. Can you believe that Market Street is only fifty
minutes distant?"

"Market Street — yes!" It's the first North Ameri-
can city I've ever seen, you know."

"Why, of course — that's so. And what do you
think of our great Republic, Senor Rezzo?"

Lucas exhibited his beautiful teeth, and Geoffrey
chuckled with enjoyment at the expected twist of the
eyebrows and accompanying twinkle. "Don't quote
me in the papers," begged Lucas.

"But you've been upon our shores — let me see —
nearly twenty-four hours now, and of course you've
quite made up yor mind — Ah, but I shan't let you
get away, so you may as well begin to like us at
^nce."

"I have begun. I love your Market Street. I love
your ferry-boats. I love your Bay — that is, I would
love it, if I could get a proper look at it. But Geoffrey,
can't you direct me to a responsible furrier's? I
was never so nearly frozen in my life."

Geoffrey glanced at him anxiously. "You did get a
chill last night. I was afraid of it "

January, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

"Nonsense! There's the sun, I do believe."

"But Lucas, really, I don't think you're looking first
rate, and you must be careful, because this climate
is "

"See! It's going to clear. It's going to be lovely;
can't we get out? Where did you put my hat? Can't
we go down those stairs there? Are they your
stairs? How pretty it is. Where will it take us, if
we go down there?"

He was leaning out to look below, where a flight
of forty or fifty steps led down to a green lane, beyond
which could be seen the roofs and chimneys of the
houses on the next level. Geoffrey sighed, inaudibly.
Again there was that strange, impalpable barrier
raised between them. He had taken stock, this morn-
ing, with a quieted judgment, of Lucas, and was dis-
turbed at what he saw. Something was wrong; it
might be simply the remnants of an illness, the re-
sult of whatever it was that happened to cripple the
poor fellow — he wished he could get at the facts.
But Lucas was queer — different — he couldn't make
it out.

He leaned over his friend's shoulder, pointing.
"That's the doctor's place, over there," he said. "You
see, the island is laid out like a snail-shell: the road
winds round and round to the top. It's really just a
little mountain, sticking up out of the Bay. These
lanes, you see, make short-cuts between the levels.
Those stairs there carry on, along by the house, up
to the front drive. Our back hall door, downstairs,
opens out on them. If you want to reach the Post
Office you can save half a mile just by going out of
the back door, and cutting through lanes."

"I see. And that's Angel Island over yonder, isn't
it? Oh, yes, I'm getting my bearings. That's the
Golden Gate, off that way; and over there is what's-
it's-name, where there's a University or something.
They told me about it, on the ferry. It was very
thrilling, because one couldn't see anything that
was more than three feet from one's nose. I suppose
I looked new and helpless, and hospitality calls for
kindness to the stranger."

"And then Kosaloff took you under his wing," added
Geoffrey. "And I was standing right there at the
window and saw you get off the boat! Of course, I
never dreamed that you were within thousands of
miles, and anyway, I couldn't have recognized

you " He broke off. Blundering ass! Had Lucas

noticed ? He stole a look, but the back of the

black head was all that was visible.

"Ship ahoy!" called a voice from somewhere down
in the mazes of brown tree trunks and green leaves.

"It's the doctor," said Geoffrey, seizing on the in-
terruption thankfully. "Hello! Come up, and come
in."

A big brown bearded man emerged on the lane
path at the foot of the stairs. "Going for the mail,"
he said. "Have to hurry; hospital day. See you
later."

You'd like to? " He turned to Lucas. He was

wondering about the bad leg.

"Oh, yes, let's go! Do let's get out, Geoffrey! Be-
sides, I want to see your doctor in the daylight. He
was very kind; he — he carried my bag up all those
steps on the lane beyond the landing. I had to let him.
He was like a sort of protecting deity, you know —
dim and big. I was afraid of him."

Geoffrey laughed. "Yes; people usually do as
Kosaloff orders," he remarked.

"Do they?" Lucas shot him a sidelong glance. "I'm
sure he's a very good guide to follow."

The big Russian, beaming and genial as his huge
paw closed on Lucas' slim brown band, was, neverthe-
less, Geoffrey saw, keenly observant of the stranger.
Lucas was apt to stir interest, even in the casual
passer by, but Geoffrey knew Kosaloff well enough
to understand that the flash of earnest scrutiny was
not due to mere curiosity, or even to a friendly regard
for a friend's friend.

He saw, too, that Lucas had seen; saw him shrink,
ever so slightly, and stiffen. But ten minutes later,
under the doctor's flow of good humored small talk,
the glint of the gray eyes softened again to laughter.
Geoffrey breathed a halting prayer of gratitude; it
might be that Kosaloff, one of these days when Lucas

knew him better, could do something He

sighed to himself again. Why must Lucas run, like
a stag to cover, at the first hint of anything beyond
the obvious and banal? The shyness which had al-
ways been characteristic of him had developed into
a fierce timidity that made Geoffrey think of a hurt
beast, snapping at the hand stretched to give it help.

They descended the steep path Indian file, Lucas
in the middle. Geoffrey, coming last and watching
Lucas was surprised at the agility he displayed, de-
spite his infirmity. He was really quite lame — it
was worse than Geoffrey had thought. He had had
no good opportunity to take notes before, but now he
could do so without any danger — Ah, that was un-
kind; it was mean, to spy on Lucas! He dropped his
eyes, and followed with lowered head and a face
growing hot for shame. Lucas was right, indeed, to
distrust a friend who could spy on him!

"Do you know, Geoffrey," remarked the doctor on
the return journey, as they paused a moment at the
foot of Geoffrey's stairs. "Do you know, if I were
you, I'd have that tree cut down." He jerked a leonine
head in the direction of the drive above them. The
other two turned, following his gesture.

"Tree?" echoed Geoffrey. "Why, Doctor! Cut it
down? My very biggest tree, and the pride of my
heart! Why on earth should I cut it down?"

"Yes — I see." Lucas was standing beside him. He
glanced around quickly; there was an odd note in the
soft voice.

"You see?" repeated Geoffrey, with a feeling of ir-
ritation. "What is it that you see? What's the mat-
ter with the tree?"

"Wait," called Geoffrey. "Wait; we'll go along. "It leans," said Kosaloff. "Don't you see how badly

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January, 1922

it leans? It hangs right over the house, and being
on the edge of "the drive that way — I don't like the
look of those roots. The earth is washing away; if
there was a heavy rain, and a wind "

A sudden shiver ran through Lucas. "I — I should
have worn a coat," he broke in, abruptly. "Geoffrey
was fussing at me like an old mother hen this morn-
ing," he added, smiling charmingly at Kosaloff. "He
says your beautiful climate is treacherous. You

leave us here? So glad to have seen you again

Thanks ; I'm very happy to be here. . . . Yes ....
Good morning!"

Geoffrey stopped, when they stood at the lower
door, presently, and looked up again at the leaning
tree.

"Funny notion," he shrugged. "It's quite all right,
you know. Trees don't fall down "

"Don't they?" murmured Lucas.

"Well — not a tree like that. It's good for a thou-
sand years. So by the time it gets ready to fall, we
shall all be somewhere else. Shan't we?"

"I dare say," nodded Lucas.

The afternoon chill drew them both to the hearth,
before the dinner hour, with a supply of cigarettes
and the current magazines. Geoffrey had been paint-
ing all afternoon from the glass-porch, and now sat
yawning at the crackling logs in a state of great con-
tentment. Work had gone well, he was pleasantly
hungry, and there was a roast for dinner. Lucas lay
at his feet, stretched out on the bear skin rug, a hand
behind his head, the other occupied with a cigarette.
A cigarette, in Lucas' fingers, became distinctly a
poetic thing; but Geoffrey watching lazily, thought he
seemed less placidly rapt than was his habit when
thus engaged. There was a litle frown set between
the mobile brows, and the eyes were dark in the shift-
ing light of the fire. Geoffrey lit his own cigarette,
and bent forward to toss away the match.

"How do you like the old cross?" he inquired, rest-
ing his arms on his knees and looking down at Lucas.
"Don't you think it's rather good up there?" He
nodded toward the wall above the fireplace where the
beautiful bronze image hung. "The more I see it the
more I believe you were right — it is much better than
that marble one ; but I still think the other head was
better. It was the best head I've ever seen. Well, I
suppose one can't have everything perfect." He
waited for a reply, but Lucas remained silent.

"Don't you think so?" demanded Geoffrey.

"Don't I think what? That nothing is perfect?
That it's rather good up there? That I was right?
That the other head was better?"

Geoffrey laughed. "Yes. Are you training for a
lawyer?"

"No to that last; yes to the rest."

"Lucas, what's the matter?"

"Matter?" The darkening eyes flashed up at him.
Geoffrey regarded him gravely.

"There's something the matter. You're not your-
self. I — I haven't done anything, have I?"

"You, amigo!"

"All right. But I thought — Well, never mind. You
look tired, though. Are you sure you're really quite
— Oh, very well; you needn't bite my head off!"

Lucas fell sound aslep in his chair after dinner; a
proceeding so unlike him that Geoffrey, who had
noticed that he brought no appetite to the roast or
to Mrs. Courtland's most delicious confections, was
seriously perturbed.

"He looks feverish," he thought, studying the dark
face dropped against the chair cushions. "Maybe it's
the grippe or something. I hope he isn't going to be
really ill! Well, thank the Lord, Kosaloff's handy,
anyhow."

He bent over the sleeping man, laying a finger
lightly on his wrist. The pulse was quick and un-
even. Lucas, he knew, had a nervous pulse, but not

like this He pressed the back of his hand

against the other's cheek. Yes, there was certainly
fever.

Lucas moved uneasily, and opened his eyes. "What
are you doing?" he muttered. "Can't you let me
sleep?"

"Lucas," said Geoffrey, firmly, "you must get to
bed. Come along; don't be an idiot." He piloted the
protesting Lucas downstairs, helped him to bed, made
him hot lemonade, and tucked him in securely and
severely.

"Shut up," he said, when Lucas fumed over these
delicate attentions. "Lie still, and keep your arms
under. Call me, do you hear? if you want anything.
I'll get Kosaloff in the morning '

"You'll do nothing of the kind!" Lucas sat straight
up, his eyes blazing. "I'm not sick, and I won't have
that doctor — I will not! If you "

"All right, all right," soothed Geoffrey. "Only, for
the love of heaven, lie down and keep covered. There;
goodnight. No — I won't send for him; you're per-
fectly safe. Goodnight."

He switched off the light, and went to his bedroom,
puzzled and troubled. It was absurd to attach im-
portance to such little things, but a discovery he had
just made loomed up like a mountain in his con-
sciousness. Lucas no longer wore the little gold and
ebony crucifix about his neck — the little crucifix that
he had held to Geoffrey's lips, that horrible night in
the swamps of Central Brazil, when Geoffrey was
hanging on the edge of death — ah, those nights of
fever! It was just Lucas' face that had saved him;
Lucas' face, in the creeping gray mists Per-
haps the crucifix had been lost; but — Lucas, without
a crucifix!

The dawn had come, before he fell asleep.
(To be continued)

January, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

THE LAUGH

By Mary J. M alloy

UP THE steep hill of Greccio puffed and blew
Messire John of Velita, praying God the way
to heaven be not so steep for an overstout
Christian. Around him, the little birds sang out
their joyful hearts in the clearness of the morning
air. Great pits of shadow along the hillside
changed face as with sudden smile, when the sway-
ing loveliness of branch above them parted and let
a golden sunbeam slip down. A slender strand of
rosy cloud shot across the sky, like an angel's wing
in flight, reddened and turned to crimson flame, as
on he toiled.

"Praise God, how beautiful is His world!" said
John of Velita, with a following sigh that the hill
stretched yet so steep before him. Large of girth
was he and short of breath, and but that the heart
within his great frame was match for the body that
enclosed it, the hill of Greccio would have waited
him long that day. But news had come down to him
in the town the night before, that his beloved friend,
Father Francis, was lying, suffering and ill, up there
in his mountain cell; and because of his love for
him, Messire John had started at earliest morn to
reach his side, that the heat of the day might not
hinder him. His squire had he sent before with
medicines and healing herbs, that relief might come
the sooner to Father Francis. Now he labored along,
all alone, satisfied, yet full conscious that the heavi-
ness of a man's body may be clog indeed upon the
lightness of his spirit.

Two figures moved presently down the hill to-
wards him. Nay, three were they; for there came
with the two tall brown-robed men whom Messire
John knew at once, a small creature, trotting along
placidly between the twain — a little white lamb.
Brother Masseo held him in tether — jolly Brother
Masseo, who went laughing through God's world in
pure joy of heart. Not so Brother Leonardo at his
side, thin and shrunken, to whom his frate was a
very present cross indeed, for Brother Leonardo was
no laughing man. To him. overburdened with
anxiety and scruple, this world, with its strange-
ness of ways was worriment alone; and often had
Father Francis said to him :

"Before me and the others see thou be always
cheerful — for it does not befit a servant of God to
have an air of melancholy and a face of trouble."

Now he who felt not the better for the companion-
ship of Brother Masseo was all but past cure indeed ;
and so it was that the two were often sent out to-
gether, that one might by his cheerfulness scatter
| the too great soberness of the other. Now came
they down the hill, and the little lamb between.

"Peace to thee, Messire di Velita, and God's own
good day!" cried Brother Masseo, as he drew near
the panting knight.

"And to thee, Brother Masseo, and good morrow
to thy brother there, though he speaks me not,"
made answer Messire John.

"I should have spoken thee in time as fair as
Brother Masseo, Messire John," said Brother
Leonardo with slight asperity in his tone, "but that
my thought was on other things, so that I scarce
saw thee at first."

"Yea, there is such noise upon our hill of worldly
things — it is so unquiet with the rush of men and
their wickedness of ways to the Brothers of Francis,
that good Brother Leonardo is sick at heart, and can
give no time from his constant prayer to pass a trifl-
ing good-morrow," said Brother Masseo slyly for
dearly did he love to draw Brother Leonardo from
his abiding seriousness.

"Art at prayer as thou comest up the hill, Brother
Leonardo?" laughed Messire John. "Nay, then, I
expect no greeting! But look about thee, good
brother — lift thine eyes. 'T is to my mind a very fair
morning prayer but to see yonder sun mount above —
to feel the coolness of this morning air and view the
greenness of the hill around — alack! I am not so
holy a man as thou, and must needs say thus my
morning prayer, for breath doth sadly lack me just
now for many words !"

He laughed again heartily, and Brother Masseo
with him; but Leonardo looked on both with disap-
proving eye.

"Thou triflest, Messire John," said he, "and but
that I know thee for a good man indeed and the best
of friends to our Father Francis, thy speech would
misplease me much."

Messire John flushed a little with sudden anger
at rebuke, being a man of spirit and unaccustomed
to such, but he laughed once as Brother Masseo
spoke out.

"Now oh Leonardo, if thou couldst but turn thy
way of thinking! Why lookest thou with so grim
an eye upon this, God's glorious world? Methinks
Messire John hath spoken a better word than thou,"
he went on more soberly. To look on God's work
with an eye so true and worshipful, is it not prayer
of adoration? — yea, and doth not a man feel his
littleness before his Maker in so doing? I tell thee,
Leonardo, there is naught but can be made prayer —
a good laugh, even, say I, is a good prayer, for in it
is content and peace of mind and cheerful thought
that pleaseth God, as so often doth Father Francis
say to us. Ecco, ecco, I have preached a morning
sermon without an obedience, and I fear me to an
unbelieving congregation!" With that, his hearty
laugh rang out across the air and Messire John,
looking with kindlier eye upon Brother Leonardo,
nodded his head with vigor.

Brother Leonardo's long face grew longer still.

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January, 1922

"Too lightly dost thou jest, and of holy things,
Masseo!" said he austerely. ""What dost thou say? —
A good laugh a good prayer! Well. then, of thy
charity do thou pray me a good laugh, for much I
fear me that this morn my poor prayers have gone
The way of salvation is a hard one, my
brother, and there sounds no laugh upon it to my
mind."

•"Did not I say I had but an unbelieving congre-
gation. Messire John?" said Brother Masseo. "God
Sri': tr.ee harrier ~.T.i. ~y Lrrr.sri:. and :: HQ
be thy good prayer will come to meet thee ere we
reach the foot of this hilL"

-"Whither go ye with the pretty lamb?" asked
:■!;;-. re ■':':.-.

"Ah, the pretty lamb:" answered Masseo. " 7 - i
pleasing and a tender thing, is it not? We take it
into Greccio to the Lady Jacopa. It is not long since
Father Fran:-; Uiul :he poor thing from a cruel
B hath played and frisked about our
eloister in such wise that much pleasure hath it
fr.-.er. the brethren, glad to look upon its innocent
.:; — and so hath it made its prayer," looking side-
long at Brother Leonardo.

7 last grot M sign of hearing. His brow was
knit, his eyes peered ahead with perplexed thought
within; his lips moved s"_:gh:".y. as if he spake in-
wardly to himself. He stood as the others pa u
regard the lamb, a pillar of patience in the middle
of the road.

"But hark. Messire John." said Masseo, drawing
nearer to the knight and speaking in lower tone.
7 -ame little lamb is sometimes too innocently
gay! More than once hath he proved something of
nee bj bia ill-chosen antics, so perhaps a
change of scene may be best — one cannot always
hen a sudden freak will seize upon his tender
brain. It may be that we will pray with somewhat
more of recollection if he abide in Greccio with the
Lady Jacopa instead of in our cells with us ! I will
tell thee, in confidence, Messire John, in confidence,
for much would it sorrow me to betray the short-
comings of this, our brother Lamb! — that in cell
and chapel both hath he lately been a disturbing
guest. The Lady is willing to keep him, and 'tis
pleasure to please our -

therefore no longer will we try to make of him a
Frate Minore."

"Ha, ha !" laughed Messire John, "now which were
Basil —to make of a lamb a Frate Minore, or of a
Minore a lamb? me mat, Brother

Leonardo!" he cried out delighted of his joke.

"The peace of the Lord be with you, Messire John."

responded Leonardo, now really offended. " Tis time
we go to Greccio. Brother Masseo. And if thou deem
me too sober. Messire John, remember thee of the
proverb—

""Who laughs too early in the day
May weep the evening hours away.'

I will hear no more of thy good laughs and thy
prayers, that thou and Brother Masseo treat so
lightly! If so, thou prayest by a good laugh — laugh
on. As for me. I see naught in this sinful world that
may move a man to so lose his time."

"Eh. eh. Brother," spoke out Brother Masseo. "Be
not so hard in thy thought of Messire John and me!
We would but make the road to heaven a glad one as
we go; and where doth our Lord forbid? Come, we
will off to Greccio as thou wishest. We will laugh
but once more in the parting. Messire John, and
Brother Leonardo shall pray us a more sober turn
of mind."

"Farewell, Brother Masseo." answered him Mes-
sire John, preparing to resume his climb. "And
farewell, Brother Leonardo and thou little lamb "

With sudden bound the little lamb leaped from the
side of Leonardo, full upon Messire John, in wanton
frolic. Messire John, being a portly man, and none
too well planted of foot upon the stepping ground,
and being likewise greatly taken by surprise, lost
bis balance with the unexpectedness of the attack.
Over he fell against Brother Masseo. who in unpre-
paredness of the situation made no resistance. So
down went the pair into the road. Brother Lamb
frisked delightedly about their prostrate forms.
Brother Leonardo stood transfixed.

"Thou beast!" cried Brother Masseo, arising and
shaking the dust of the road from his brown habit.

"Thou assassin!" spluttered Messire John, purple
with rage, struggling to a sitting posture and shak-
ing his broad fist at his gay assailant.

Suddenly there broke forth a great roar from the
throat of Brother Leonardo. In vain did he strive
to check, to hold it back. At sight of the twain, indig-
nant, discomposed, it grew more and more till at
last, in very despite of themselves, Brother Masseo
and Messire John joined in.

'If thou didst speak aright, oh Masseo," cried
Leonardo, as soon as he could regain his voice, and
shaking still with hi3 novel mirth, "now have I
prayed a good prayer indeed! For without denial,
a good laugh have I laughed, and at thee besides,
and in truth I feel my heart much the lighter for
both! So off to Greccio with our little lamb, Brother
Masseo, and the peace of God with thee, Messire
John, till we meet again!"

A REQUEST

Alth' . re than two thousand extra

copies of the November HERALD printed, since we
knew :- rd Order National Convention num-

ber would be greatly in demand, nevertheless we
have run short of copies. We kindly ask, therefore,
some of our readers who have no further use for

:py of that issue and it is still in good con-
dition, to mail it to us at their convenience. It is
needless to add that we shall be deeply grateful to
them for their kindness. We also wish to extend our
sincerest thanks to all those who returned to us their
copy of the August issue and beg God to bless them
for their charity.

wh In ths In I ei bb i of W om

Edited bv Grace Keon

"To make and hold
yourself good is the
best start toward
making the world
goo d." (Tertiary
Convention.)

THE PARTNER'S RESPONSIBILITY

IN last month's article, "Partner-
ship with God," I tried to say
that to be God's partner we
must share with God in giving.
This, of course, pertains to the
whole world — to men as well as to
women, but as I am supposed to talk
only in the interests of women
here I shall confine my talk di-
rectly to my own sex. If I can
help, it will not be because I
know more than other people,
but because my experience of
life has probably given me great-
er opportunities to observe ac-
tions and influences, causes and
effects.

To be a partner is to share
duties; it is to give help when
help is necessary; to bear bur-
dens; to take responsibility.
And yet the first, the foremost
reason for so many absolute
failures is this desire to shirk
responsibility. To shoulder it
when it is due ; to honestly try,
and then if an error is made, or
if things turn out wrong, to hon-
estly take the blame ; that is the
first essential of worth while
character-building.

"You've met men and women,"
said a man in conversation with
me recently, "we've all met them,
in every walk of life. They have
'large' ideas : they desire to ac-
complish wonderful things ; they
are convincingly sure of their
position. But let one of these
'large' ideas dwindle to nothing,
or a scheme fall flat — and you
find them busy disowning all
responsibility. Some one inter-
fered; some one failed to obey;
some one was to blame — any one
but the originator of the plan. He
or she will not take responsibility
— and in general this type has such
convincing arguments in his or her
own excusing that you have to col-
lect your thoughts mighty rapidly
or you'll be in a maze."

And he knew what he was talking
about, for he had just lost several
thousand dollars on a business deal
that might have caused him to lose
much more had he not further in-
vestigated the responsibility of the
one of whom he spoke.

Another instance of this evasion
was brought home to me pungently
and quite recently. Some fifteen
years ago a certain woman held an
important editorial position in a
large publishing office. Her fam-
ily moved east, and she with them,
and she soon found a new connec-
tion. On a visit to her western
home a year ago she came in contact
23

by chance with the head of a print-
ing house with whom she had had
much to do. She was fifteen years
older, but it is possibly true, as has
been said, that the older one grows
in the book business, the younger
one keeps. At any rate, meeting
this gentleman, she was grati-
fied a little at being instantly
recognized.

"So vou reallv remember me,
Mr. F.?"

"I certainly do, Miss X.," he
answered, "and I think you'd be
surprised to know how well.
You're remembered not only by
myself, but by all the men of
your time here who are still in
the office."

"Well, now," she said. "And
why?"

'Y'ou are the only woman with
whom we've had dealings who
willingly shouldered the burden
of her own errors," he said,
bluntly.

"I'd like an explanation of
that, if you don't mind." she re-
marked.

"When you returned work to
us from your house," he an-
swered, "it became the habit in
our office to rely upon your word.
If you wrote Y'our printer's er-
ror, Mr. B.,' it was his. If it were
your own you were neither
ashamed nor afraid to confess it.
There are few people who have
that trait. That's why I say you
are so well-remembered."

"That is news." she said.
"Good news," she added,
thoughtfully. 'Yet I can even see
how it was brought about. I passed a
hard apprenticeship in my profes-
sion. I was associated at various
times with both men and women —
clever enough and brilliant enough
— but always with that one little
weakness. I was often made the butt
of their errors — often made to carry
blame that was reallv theirs. I have

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January, 1922

seen subordinates, too, who were
given orders, and when these orders
were carried out their superior dis-
owned them, saying he had meant
something entirely different. In
some of my bitter moments of re-
flection I told myself, 'Well, per-
haps I shall be like this, later on,
when I have won my place.' But I
knew then I never could be. Who
doesn't make an error occasionally?
I made it my business to make as
few as possible, and when they were
made to accept the consequences.
And I have never passed on respon-
sibility."

"How has it worked?"

"Only for good. With my employ-
ers; the men in my business learned
to know that I loved my work and
that to make an error was positively
painful to me. They realized, too,
that to err occasionally is one of the
responsibilities we pay for living.
That's how that worked out. On
people under me — young and old —
and there are about one hundred of
these at the present time in various
positions — I impress the fact that
I will forgive anything rather than
the placing of blame wrongfully. I
am very exact about this — almost,
one might say, a crank on it. A
lapse is excusable, and a second and
a third, and even a fourth or fifth,
if I find that a person is honestly
trying and is not shiftless and care-

less. But no shirking of the blame.
That, never. The first offender is
given a serious talking to; if the
offense is repeated he or she is dis-
charged."

The bearing of responsibility, to-
day, is the pivot on which our entire
social world revolves. We have
quoted the above example from life,
not because it pertains to any one
calling or profession, but because
the condition may be found every-
where, in all callings and profes-
sions. It is the experience of a
woman whose life is filled with fine
deeds, who is a true Catholic, a
capable business woman, a good
daughter, an earnest social worker.
And often, unfortunately, this shirk-
ing of responsibility has its foun-
dation in the home. Does not the
mother place the burden on the one
child whose nature impels it to
cleave close to her? She becomes
weary of battling with the seeming
selfishness of her other children, and
when she wants a thing done turns
to the one whose obedience seems to
come naturally and who will do her
bidding without any shirking.

What is she doing? Developing
in one child a sense of responsibil-
ity — yes. But with the others?
One mother says: "My boy is
eighteen years old; he never said
no to me in his whole life — but he
never did a thing I told him to."

Responsibility is distasteful — there-
fore to be avoided.' But, later on,
the devoted child may blame her
mother for unfairness, and the oth-
ers may blame her also, saying:
"Had my mother compelled me to
accept my share of responsibility
when I was young I might have been
a success * * * or such and such
a thing might not have happened
* * * or I would be a better
woman than I am today."

If you're a mother, are you shirk-
ing? If you're a daughter, are you
shirking? You're not going to es-
cape, ever — don't think so. You are
spoiling your child's character — and
you are spoiling your own. Every
duty unfulfilled is loosening the
cords of your strength of will;
every responsibility shoved aside
means laxity of spiritual strength.
No one yields to a big temptation
who has not yielded again and again
to little ones. No one becomes a
failure who has not fallen short
again and again in small duties.

To be God's partner is to share
responsibility — not to shirk it.
What Is Your Problem? The
Lazy Boy? The Careless
Girl? The Relative Who Has
No Backbone? How Have
You Dealt with It? Tell us
in the Interest of Other
Women.

m>t Hanb ^fjere ftate g>f)oulb Mt

This is the land where hate

should die

No feuds of faith, no
spleen of race,
No darkly brooding fear
should try
Beneath our flag to find
a place.
Lo! every people here has
sent
Its sons to answer free-
dom's call,
Their lifeblood is the strong
cement
That builds and binds the
nation's wall.

This is the land where hate

should die

Though dear to me my
faith and shrine,
I serve my country well
when I
Respect the creeds that
are not mine.
He little loves the land
who'd cast
Upon his neighbor's
word a doubt,
Or cite the wrongs of ages
past
From present rights to
bar him out.

This is the land where hate
should die;
This is the land where
strife should cease,
Where foul, suspicious fear
should fly
Before the light of love
and peace.
Then let us purge from
poisoned thought
That service to the state
we give,
And so be worthy as we
ought .
Of this great land in
which we live.

By Denis A. McCarthy

January, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

The Pearl Centerpiece

Use one of the popular mercerized
threads. They are delightful to work
with and have a very handsome effect
when the work is finished. A medium
sized thread is the best for this design
which should be worked rather tightly
because the edges are quite open and if
they are loosely crocheted they will not
keep their shape. Take first a piece of
linen the size of the centerpiece you
wish to make; then hem and feather-
stitch it, for the lace is worked on to the
linen.

First round — Put the hook through
the linen and draw the thread after it.
Now go all round the linen making 1 tr
and 2 ch at equal distances all round. An
equal number of stitches is required.
Join the round neatly.

Second round — 1 si stitch and 2 d. c.
in first hole, * 2 ch, 1 tr in next hole,
repeat from * all round.

Third round— Slip-stitch to middle of
5 ch, 4 ch, then work 3 tr over first 3 ch,
then * 3 ch, 1 tr in next loop, 1 d. c, 3
tr down side of tr just made. This
makes 3 slanting trs. Repeat from *,
join to top of first 4 ch.

Fourth round — SI st to first of three
sloping trs, 2 d. c. in this point, * 5 ch,

2 d. c. in next point. Repeat from * and
join.

Fifth round — 6 ch (first three form
tr) 1 tr in center of following loop, * 3
ch, 1 tr in first stitch of following 2 d. c,

3 ch, 1 tr in center of next loop. Re-
peat from * and join.

Sixth round — 3 d. c. under every loop
of chain.

Seventh round — 1 d. c. in each d. c. of
last round.

Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh
rounds — Same as seventh round.

Twelfth round — 5 ch (three to stand
for a tr), miss 1 d. c, 1 tr in next, * 2
ch, miss 1 st, 1 tr in next. Repeat from

* and join. There must be an even
number of spaces.

Thirteenth round — Like the second
round.

Fourteenth round — Like the third
round.

Fifteenth round — Like the fourth
round.

Sixteenth round — Like the fifth round,
but here a little manipulation may be
required, for the number of holes must
divide by five to arrange for the edge.
This may be contrived by leaving out or
adding a stitch here and there, taking
care not to do it always in the same
part of the round.

Seventeenth round — 3 d. c. under the
first hole, 1 d. c. on next tr, 3 d. c. under
the second hole (making 7 d. c. in all),

* 5 ch, miss 1 hole, 7 d. c. as before, re-
peat all round from *, finish with 5 ch
and join.

Eighteenth round — * 5 d. c. in center
5 stitches of 7 of last round, 5 ch, 1 tr
in last ch before the 3 tr, and 1 tr in
next loop of chain (making 5 tr), 5 ch,
repeat from *, 5 ch and join.

Nineteenth round — * 3 d. c. in center
stitches of 5 d. c, 5 ch, 1 tr in loop, 2 tr
on next 2 tr, 5 ch, miss 1 tr, 2 tr on next
2 tr, 1 tr under next loop, 5 ch, repeat
from *, end with 5 ch and join.

Twentieth round — * 1 d. c. in center
stitch of 3 d. c, 5 ch, 1 tr in loop, 2 tr
on next 2 tr, 5 ch, 1 tr under loop of 5
ch, 3 ch, 1 tr in same place, 5 ch, miss
1 tr, 2 tr in next 2 tr, 1 tr under next
loop, 5 ch, repeat from *, join.

Twenty-first round — Sl-st to the end
stitch of the first loop, 3 ch (for a tr),

* 2 tr on next 2 tr, 4 ch, 1 tr in next loop,
4 ch, miss 1 tr, 2 tr in next 2 tr, and 1 tr
in next loop. Then 1 tr in next loop and
repeat from *, join.

Twenty -second round — 3 tr in center
of group of 6 tr, 4 ch, 1 tr in first loop of
fan, 6 ch, 1 d. c. in first stitch to form
a picot, 1 tr in next loop, 1 picot, then 3
tr each separated by a picot in center
loop, 1 picot, 1 tr in next loop, 1 picot,
1 tr in next loop, 4 ch, miss 2 tr, repeat
from the beginning of the round.

Ribbon Insertion

Abbreviations: Ch., chain; sl.st,
slip stitch; d.c, double crochet; tr.,
treble; l.tr., long treble.

Use No. 30 crochet cotton and size
6V2 hook.

Make a chain the length required.

1st row. 1 tr. in 7th ch. from
hook, 2 ch., miss 2 ch. below, 1 tr.
in next, and continue these holes to
end of chain.

2nd row. 11 ch. 1 d.c. in 6th ch.
from hook, 1 d.c. in next, then 2 tr.
in next 2, 2 l.tr. in next 2, sl.st. to
2nd tr. below and repeat. This
forms the first side of insertion.

In making the second side, after
the row of holes, make 23 ch., sl.st.
to 14th ch. from hook to form a ring,
work into it 3 d.c, 4 ch., 3 d.c, 2 ch.,
join to first little arm on first side
of work, 2 ch., 3 d.c into ring again,
2 ch., join to second arm, 2 ch., 3 d.c.
into ring, 4 ch., 3 d.c, 4 ch., and 3
d.c. all into ring, now sl.st. into first
ch. (of ch. for arm), 2 ch., miss 2,
and work 2 d.c, 2 tr., and 2 l.tr. as
before. After joining to second tr.
below, make 8 ch., sl.st. to last picot
made on ring, 2 ch., miss 2 ch., and
work a little arm as before, repeat.
Thread ribbon through the rings.

3Tbank Won

The greetings of our readers at Christmas
this year were so numerous that we find
it impossible to give individual acknowl-
edgment to their communications.

We wish our friends to know that we ap-
preciate the expressions of their prayer-
ful good wishes for us and our work, and
that prayers will be offered for the inten-
tions recommended.

Conducted by Elizabeth Rose

which must have gotten an inkling
of the matter in hand, sending in a
letter of its own ? Here it is :

Letter of the Letter Box
Here am I, your Letter Box,

A FIRESIDE TALK

MY DEAR YOUNG FOLKS:
Now that we are entering a
new year together, let me
first wish everyone of you the hap-
piest and best you have ever had. Free of bars, of bolts, of locks.
In the second place, let us have a Open stand I all the time,
good business talk. Every now and Ready for your prose or rhyme,
then I get a pleasant letter from one Try them both — such fare agrees
of you which I enjoy very much; Very well with me ; and please
so much, indeed, that I have been Don't forget I need much food,
thinking very seriously of asking So be it henceforth understood
our kind Editor to put up a Letter I'm always hungry for a letter,

OLD CHRISTMAS

Did you know that December 25
was not always Christmas Day? In
the first days of Christianity the
commemoration of Our Lord's birth
had no fixed date. In some coun-
tries it was celebrated in the months
of April, May or September. After
a while, the Church of Asia, the
Eastern Church, as it was called,
a most important body, commenced
to keep Epiphany, January 6, as
Christmas also, and this went on for

Box by our Fireside, in which any And think than yours could none be so long a time that when one of the
of you who wish may drop a letter, better! Popes of the fourth century decided

to it or to me or to each other, just With my best love, I now will close that the feast of Christmas should

as you feel inclined. Our Puzzlers THE LETTER BOX,
have been doing good work this past Per your E. ROSE,

year — we don't have to borrow puz-
zles from outside; they are all our

own. Now, why can't we extend the EfEJ^f

field to a Letter Box of our own 8zilS3§j

also? Certainly, young folks who
live all over the Union, from Maine
to C a 1 i f o rnia,
must have plenty
to say and to tell
about their
homes, their
schools, their
studies, their
travels (if they
have had the good
luck to go a-trav-
eling), their fa-
vorite books,
amusements, etc.
— why, there are
so many things to
write about that
the wonder is
anybody can find
nothing to write
about! Try your
hand at this new
plan, and get
right to work.
What do you
think of this Let- {
ter Box itself, fo m

WHAT THE NEW YEAR SAYS

At midnight hour the gates of Time
Unclose and let a New Year through.
"Who goes there? cries the watching Earth;
"The pass-word what you mean to do?"

"The pass-word? Peace and Happinessl
What do I mean to do?
Why, everything that's pleasantest,"
Says 1922.

"To old and young 1 mean to bring
Their heart's desires, if much or few;
God's blessing on both grief and joy,"
Says 1922.
"I mean to make my HERALD note
Ever more clear and true;
To make my FIRESIDE glow more bright,"
Says 1922.

I mean to make a better world.
Old World below, of you I

Don't cry me nay I've come to stay-

That's what I mean to dol"

Says 1922.

for all future time be celebrated on
December 25, Epiphany became
known as Old Christmas, in distinc-
tion to the new date. Now see the
force of custom — at our own day,
the best part of 2,000 years later,
we often speak of it as Old Christ-
mas!

It is likewise
known as Twelfth
Day, because it
was the twelfth
day after Christ-
mas, and marked
the end of the
Christmas festiv-
ities. "Twelfth
Night" was a
great festival in
olden times. Ev-
erybody made
merry on that
night; there was
dancing and sing-
ing, and theatri-
cal performances
and plentyof good
eating andamuse-
ments of all
kinds. But there
I were other cus-
| toms besides
) those left over
.© from Christmas

January, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

which belonged to Epiph-
any, some of which still ex-
ist. In England, for in-
stance, Protestant as she
is to-day, the king, on the
Feast of the Epiphany,
sends an offering of gold,
frankincense and myrrh,
like the Magi of old, to the
altar of the Chapel Royal
of St. James' Palace. The
Catholic King of Spain
sends three chalices of gold
on this day to three differ-
ent churches selected by
him; in one chalice is gold,
in the second frankincense,
in the third myrrh. The
Feast is a great one for
children in Spain; in fact,
Epiphany Eve is their
Christmas Eve. But it isn't
Santa Claus who fills the
boots of the boys and the
shoes and slippers of the
girls with candy and pres-
ents — it is Balthazar, the
Wise Man from Ethiopia,
who performs this kindly
act, or so the children be-
lieve.

In Italy, it is the Befana
who brings the good
things. The Baf ana, so the
story goes, is an old Jewish woman
of Bethlehem, who was sweeping
off her doorstep when the Three
Kings passed by, seeking Our
Lord in His stable. They asked her
about the Infant, of Whom she knew
nothing ; but she wanted to go with
them to find Him. Unfortunately,
she was one of those very good
housekeepers who won't put aside
their work for anything, no matter
how much more important that any-
thing may happen to be, and while
she went indoors to put away her
broom, the Magi passed on and were
lost to her. So ever since she has
been looking for them and the little
Infant, and she brings presents to
all the children, in the hope that
the Bambino may be one of their
number.

In the city of Florence, in Italy, a
crowd goes out to meet the big
image of the Befana, borne into
town on Epiphany Eve, escorts it to
a bridge over the River Arno, on
which Florence lies, and throws it
overboard, with much commotion

end of the march, making a
beautiful effect as they
float upward in the clear
night air.

There are many other
Epiphany customs of dif-
ferent countries, which
would take too long to tell
you about here. But these
all belong to the world be-
low; if you look up to the
sky above you on the night
of the Epiphany you will
see, nearly overhead, one
of the most glorious star-
groups or constellations in
the whole heavens, Orion
the Hunter. If you do not
already know him by name,
get somebody to show him
to you — you will never for-
get him after that. He has
a very distinct star-belt,
made of three bright stars,
all in a line, and, above
them, a little to the side, is
a still brighter star. In
Catholic countries, these
three stars bear the name
of "The Three Kings," in
honor of Caspar, Melchior
and Balthazar, the Wise
Men from the East.

and merriment. In Russia, they
have the same old woman and her
legend; her name there is the Ba-
boushka.

Another Italian celebration of the
feast is held in Milan, where on
Epiphany Eve a gorgeous proces-
sion passes through the streets,
known as the "March of the Three
Kings." Three men, dressed as the
Magi, ride beautiful horses at the
head of the procession, followed by
a crowd of attendants splendidly
attired in fancy costumes. At the
end of their route i3 a manger, with
a figure of the Holy Infant lying
within. Hymns are then sung and
gifts laid at its feet. At the head
of the procession is borne an im-
mense golden star.

In parts of France, Holland and
Belgium, children march through
the streets of town and village
carrying star-shaped lighted lan-
terns to represent the Star of Beth-
lehem. Among these lanterns are
numbers of balloons of the same
shape, which are set adrift at the

A PROMISE THAT HAS
NEVER BEEN BROKEN

The 8th of January, 1814, is a
memorable day in the history of
Louisiana. On the banks of the
Mississippi River, called by its dis-
coverer, Father Marquette, the
River of the Immaculate Concep-
tion, the city of New Orleans lay
panic-stricken and quaking, await-
ing the appearance of the English
ships that bore to it a relentless foe.
Poor Louisiana! She was the
"baby" of the United States, hav-
ing only come into the Union two
years before — and a fine time she
had had of it since her coming! The
country was again at war with Eng-
land, and down here in the South
the Crescent City was of prime im-
portance to the enemy. General
Andrew Jackson and his brave men
were ready to do all that human ef-
fort could do — but what were 3,000
men, with appalling lack of ammu-
nition, against 15,000? History
tells us the bales of cotton, used as
barriers through which the British

FRANCISCAN HERALD

January, 1922

balls could not penetrate, won the
victory for the Americans. Jackson
himself did not think so. Although
not a Catholic, when the fight was
over and the English running away
in their ships through the darkness
of the night, he sat down and wrote
a note to the Catholic Bishop Du-
bourg of the city, declaring that the
success of the American arms was
supernatural in his opinion, and
asking him to hold a solemn service
of thanksgiving in his Cathedral
"in token of the great assistance
we have received from the Ruler of
all events and our humble sense of
it," he writes. He fully realized
that a stronger power than that of
man had vanquished the enemy.
Think of it— 3,000 against 15,000!

The Ursuline Nuns of New Or-
leans could have told him whence
came that power. This Order was
the very first that ever settled in
the United States, many years be-
fore they were known under that
name. They came to Louisiana from
France when it was still a French
colony, in the year 1727, nearly 100
years before the battle of New Or-
leans. Within the walls of their
modest convent stood a plain
wooden statue of Our Blessed
Mother with her Divine Child in
her arms — a statue beloved of the
nuns, and known to them as the
statue of Our Lady of Prompt Suc-
cor. While the battle raged outside,
the good Sisters were on their knees
before Our Lady, begging her to
watch over their threatened city and
its unhappy people, and to give vic-
tory to the arms of their brave sol-
diers. Crowds of terrified women
and children and non-combatants,
Catholic and Protestant alike, added
their supplications to God and knelt
with them in their little chapel and
on the garden walks outside; for all
New Orleans reverenced these noble
women and felt instinctively that
God would hear their prayers, if He
heard the prayers of any. Every
voice joined in the solemn vow made
by the nuns at the feet of Our Lady
of Prompt Succor that if the enemy
were defeated there should be a
perpetual Mass of thanksgiving of-
fered to God on all the 8th of Janu-
arys to come.

Their prayers were heard, as you
all know. The Americans won the

fight; and from that day on, through
all the long years that have elapsed,
that vow has been faithfully kept,
and a solemn Mass of Thanksgiving
offered in the chapel of the Ursuline
Convent of New Orleans on January
8th of each succeeding year.

WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?

Poor Christopher Columbus! The
Danes, Norwegians, Portuguese, Welsh,
even the Chinese, say they did — every
now and then a new claim is put for-'
ward. Well, there was plenty of the
New World to discover, and room for
any number of discoverers; but if you
ask an Irish Young Folk, boy or girl,
he or she will unhesitatingly tell you St.
Brendan was the man and nobody else.

St. Brendan was an Irish monk who
lived in the sixth century. The Irish, in
his day, were great travelers and navi-
gators, and they brought home many
rumors of unreached lands lying in the
seas west of Ireland. Among these
rumors was a persistent one of a beauti-
ful island sometimes beheld by sailors
blown out of their course in unknown
waters, at once inviting and eluding the
mariner, for on nearer approach it van-
ished, leaving an empty stretch of ocean.
No doubt this strange tale was improved
upon in course of time, as strange tales
generally are; finally it came to be be-
lieved that the mysterious island was in
reality the Earthly Paradise, and it was
given by the Irish the name of Hy-
Brasail, or Island of the Blessed. It is
not likely that St. Brendan shared this
rather far-fetched belief, but he is said to
have been all afire with zeal for souls, so
he determined to investigate this tale for
himself — perhaps, beyond the stormy
seas by which his own isle was begirt,
lay lands where souls were waiting for
the light of Faith. So he set out from a
bay in Kerry, lying: at the foot of what
is still known as St. Brendan's Bay, with
a company of monks and mariners, and
he was gone for nearly a year. The ac-
counts he brought home with him have
led some historians to the belief that he
really reached what we now know as
Chesapeake Bay, the two Carolinas,
Georgia and East Florida, for this coast
was called later by Norse adventurers
Irland-it-Mikla, or Greater Ireland.

It is a well-known fact that there were
Irish discoveries in the New World, of
which our own American author, Wil-
liam Cullen Bryant, speaks in his "Popu-
lar History of the United States." You
can study all this out for yourselves
some day if you are interested; but
whether you believe in his discoveries or
not, you must allow St. Brendan all the
pluck of an explorer and the zeal of a

missionary. He made no effort to repeat
his voyage after his return — why, we
are not told. Columbus knew the story,
which has always been a widely-spread
one in Europe, and said:

"I am convinced that the terrestrial
paradise is in the island of St. Brendan,
that no one can reach save by the grace
of God."

A famous French writer of our time,
Montalembert, goes so far as to say that
the voyage of St. Brendan in search of
Hy-Brasail seems to have pointed out to
Columbus the road to America.

ST. FRANCIS JUSTIFIES POV-
ERTY

The Bishop of Assisi, to whom the
man of God often went for advice,
received him kindly, and said to
him: "Your life — I mean possessing
nothing in the world — seems to me
hard and rough." "My Lord," an-
swered the holy man, "if we had pos-
sessions, we should need arms for
our protection; for thence spring
questions and disputes, and the love
of God and of one's neighbour is wont
to be hindered thereby in many ways ;
and that is why we will not possess
any temporal things in this world."
And the Bishop was much pleased
by the answer of the man of God,
who despised all transitory things,
and especially money, to such a de-
gree that in all his Rules he chiefly
commended poverty, and made all the
brethren careful to avoid money . . .
Wherefore in one of his Rules he
said, in detestation of money: "Let
us who have left all things be-
ware of losing the kingdom of
heaven for so little. And if we find
money anywhere, let us care no more
for it than for the dust which we
tread with our feet." — 3 Sec. 35.

THE "LAST BATTLE OF THE
REVOLUTION"

November 25, 1783, was a big day in
the city of New York; and wouldn't
some of our Young Folk have enjoyed
themselves if they had been present!
It was the day on which the British
forces were to leave our shores forever,
taking their flag with them — at twelve
o'clock noon the flag of a new nation
was to break out from the top of every
flagstaff where so long the emblem of
England's power had floated in dom-
inance. Perhaps down in the bottom of
their hearts the English soldiers were
glad enough that the long war was over,
and they could once more see their
homes; still, it was natural, too, that
the act of acknowledging defeat wasn't
any too pleasant, and doubtless they felt

January, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

rather sore. One of them, Provost Cun-
ningham, did, at any rate; he was en-
raged and didn't hesitate to show it. A
man named Day kept a tavern or inn on
Murray street, near where the soldiers
were waiting the time for embarking.
He was such an ardent patriot that he
couldn't wait for twelve o'clock — up
went the American flag at dawn, too
soon. Cunningham, coming along later,
saw it and stopped at once.

"Down with that rag!" he cried.
"It's up for good," said Day, as cool
as the other was fiery.

"Down with it, I tell you! This town
is ours until noon — I'll put you under
arrest. Here, tear it down," he went on,
turning to some of his men. But they
were not anxious for trouble now that
they were on the point of leaving for
good, and they moved so reluctantly that
his passion overcame him.

"Get out of the way," he ordered a
guard near him. "I'll pull the thing
down myself and tear it into tatters."

By this time a large crowd had gath-
ered, and mutterings were heard all
around. Cunningham was too angry to
care. He grasped at the cords, and
started to haul the new beautiful symbol
of a new-born country from its lofty
height. Started — but that was as far as
he got. Out sailed Mrs. Day, fire in her
eye and in her hand a good solid broom-
stick, and over the head of the aston-
ished British officer "thwack! thwack!
thwack!" came the stout American wood
until, furious and mortified beyond
words, he actually took to his heels, leav-
ing Mrs. Day and the flag of her coun-
try the victors on the field. Jeers and
roars of laughter followed him as he fled,
his own men even joining in, in spite of
themselves. A spectator of the scene has #
left us a comical description of it, the
broomstick going like mad, the powder
from Cunningham's white wig (the of-
ficers all wore wigs in those days, you
know) , flying about him so thick that it
almost resembled a halo — except for the
very unsaintly expression of the coun-
tenance it encircled.

A TREE THAT WAS MADE A
GOD

Just now, as no doubt our Young
Folks know, there is a great talk
about The Hall of Fame of the
American Forestry Association, in
Washington, our capital. The rec-

SLE CO

By JOSH WINK

THE GOLDEN MOMENT

Of course, you can't always be working,

And drudgery's hard, it is true;
"T is natural wish should be lurking

To dream of great things you will do.
But thought without action breeds sorrow

For precious time wasted away;
So put off your dreams till tomorrow.

But up and be doing today.

Oh yes, there are times when your nearest

Will heedlessly rouse you and vex,
When you turn on the friends who are dearest

With harshest words passion selects;
Still, if you must rage more than sorrow,

And let anger have its full sway.
Keep frowns and rebuke for tomorrow.

But smile on your loved ones today.

"T is sure gloomy doubts will come on you

Of the future — what trials it may bear;
Discouraged, as fears pile upon you,

You brood on the coming of care,
With your energy bent 'neath the harrow

Of despondency, don't give it way:
In God's loving hands leave tomorrow,

But remember He gives you today.

AS FAR AS SHE GETS
"That nagging woman claims to be the
chitect of her husband's fortunes.*'
"Well, she does supply the fretwork."

LOGICAL SUCCESS
"These astrologers seem to make

money."
"Why shouldn't they? Star-gazing is

a business which is always looking up."

SHOWED HIS WALK IN LIFE

"So the gentlemanly man I saw arrested

was the one the police were looking for.

How did they come to suspect him of

being a 'fence' ?"

"I suppose they got a clue in his swing-
ing gait."

FOLLOW THE FASHION
"What is the easiest way of reaching

the outskirts of the town?"
"The fashionable way."
"What do you mean by that ?"
"If you want to reach the skirts of the

town, take a short cut."

NOT INOCULATED
"He was badly gassed in France."
"You don't tell me! Now, you'd thii

he was immune after two terms in t

legislature."

fee."

CONSISTENT CHARGES
"Look at this hospital bill! The

geon must make a reduction
"Why must he?"
"Because operations should always be

performed at cut rates."

THE NATURAL WAY
"John never studied forestry, yet he
seems to know every kind of tree. How
does he manage it?"

"By deduction. For instance, he can
tell a horse-chestnut by its stable appear-
ance, and a dogwood by its bark."

NATURALLY
"The critics say the prima donna who
sang last night has a velvet voice."
"Sure; that's how she gets her pile."

ords of all the famous trees of our
country are being collected and will
be preserved, as far as we can tell,
for centuries to come, when some of
them, giants of the earth, may still
be flourishing, though we of the
present day are gone. There is a
tree of Asia, however, before which
our trees of America must bow their
lofty heads, even though it has long
since perished and many of them
are yet green and vigorous. This
was the famous Plane Tree of which
a Persian Emperor, Xerxes, made a
god! He caused it to be proclaimed
a divinity, had it hung with flowers
and garlands, and commanded his
army on pain of death to bow down
before it and worship it, while his
pagan priests incensed it with sweet
perfumes and he himself, kneeling
at its foot, offered sacrifice to it. It
is a good thing that Plane tree
wasn't a human being — its amazed
brain would certainly have given
way under the strain! This tree,
like its fellows, was a giant — the
planes grow 70 to 80 feet in height.
They are beautiful trees, covered,
trunk and branches, with a pale-
green bark which peels off every
year, to be again renewed, and
against the darker coloring of their
neighbors they stand out distinct
and so charming to the eye that it
wanders again and again back to
their beauty. If their roots are ex-
posed, they are found to be of vivid
and lovely shades of red, though
this color fades after awhile in dry
places. There are American and
European planes, but the Asiatic
ones are kings among trees. Their
branches spread out, mighty and
wonderful, above the summits of
the lesser growths surrounding
them, often putting out where other
trees have ceased their growth. In
the hot and dry eastern countries
the shade afforded by their huge
leaves and branches is grateful
beyond words; and probably this
was the reason Xerxes made the
plane that sheltered him a god and
paid it divine honors. Do not some
of our Young Folk musicians play
the majestic and celebrated "Largo"
of Handel? Well, this great air is
that of a song to the Plane Tree
of Xerxes in Handel's opera of that
name. It speaks of its waving
fronds with their coolness of shade,

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and its invincible front to tempest,
and the thunders and lightnings of
Heaven. The "Largo" is seldom
sung, nowadays, but as an instru-
mental piece it more than holds its
own; so the next time any of you
hear it or try your own hand at it,
think of Xerxes and the story of
the tree he tried to make a god.

This Xerxes, by the way, left a
name for more insane performances
besides that of the plane; he once
got angry with the sea because a
bridge of boats he had thrown across
a narrow arm of it, where he wished
to cross over into Greece from Asia,
was carried away in a storm. To
revenge himself, he gave orders that
the sea should be "spanked"! Three
hundred lashes were inflicted upon
its unmoved surface, and chains
cast into it to let it know that Xer-
xes was its master, and would put
up with no nonsense. Now after
that, surely you will agree with me
that the Plane Tree had more sense
apparently than its royal worship-
per—for it did not lose its head with
the divine honors he paid it, and he
most certainly did lose his with far
less cause.

THE PUZZLE CORNER

Lost Authors (American)
1— Big red wort 6—1 swill
2— Oh sing nig 7— Lo mesh
3— So wet 8— Bad run

4— Her wit it 9— We loll

5— By tarn 10— Virgin

—Mary K. Dailey, Philadelphia.

Which Instrument Do You Like
Best?

1— Dlamonin 4 — Jbnoa

2— Rtigau 5 — Amrahoicn

3 — Anoplia 6 — Tocren

—Edith Tinsley, New York City.

What Are You Going to Be?

1— A wharf and a jutting rock.

2— A river in Italy and participle of
the verb to eat.

3 — Veneration, reverence, and the
name of a Pagan deity.

4 — Not any.

5 — A girl's nickname and a famous
Italian painter.

6 — To speak in music and to mistake.

January, 1922

7 — To speak, declare, and knowledge.

8 — A deed and a conjunction.

9 — To cook with fat and part of the
verb to be.

10 — A line of union and a strain.

11 — A machine and contraction of
"ever."

12 — A familiar drink and a shout.
— Clement Lane, Baltimore, Md.

Out of the Garden

1— Sioladalg 4 — Glodowglen

2 — Xloph 5 — Mcosos

3 — Sanieps 6 — Nnacsa

— Bertha Van Gorder, Maynard, N. Y.

Answers to December Puzzles

Christmas Song Without Vowels

Christmas comes but once a year,
And it now is almost here.
Tell me boys, every one,
What you want for Christmas?

Which Vegetable Do You Like
Best?

Pumpkin

Corn

Carrots

Squash

Beans

Turnips

Onions

Lettuce

Radishes

Endive

Transposition

Ant, tan, sun, ass, cat, Satan, nut,
clan, cut, tun— SANTA CLAUS.

Marabou

Gazelle

Crocodile

In the Menagerie

Rhinoceros
Porcupine
Buffalo
Giraffe

Christmas.

Enigma

Correct Solutions

Cathei-ine Rauch, Brooklyn, N. Y.;
Hortense Gallet, Pocatello, Idaho; Eliza-
beth A. Ziegler, Trenton, N. J.; Anna
Mary Hake, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Lucy T.
Gerard, Coden, Ala.; Frank Helldorfer,
Baltimore, Md.; John Tinsley, New
York, N. Y.; Edith Tinsley, New York,
N. Y.; C. Stezelberger, Brooklyn, N. Y.;
Catherine Rutherford, Chicago, 111.;
Columbus Avenue, Trenton, N. J.; Isa-
belle Baker, Bowling Green, Ky.

THOMAS a KEMPIS

By Catharine McPartlin

THE ONLY true democracy, say
scholars of today, is to be found
in the Catholic Church, wherein
peasants become princes, the children
of the illiterate become scholars, and
sinners become saints and martyrs.
The biography of Thomas a Kempis
illustrates this democracy, showing as
it does, in a country and an age far
removed from ours, the important part
given in God's work of the centuries,
to a child of the lowly. Every one who
reads has heard of Thomas a Kempis
and his golden book, the Imitation of
Christ, though too few know anything
of the man beyond what is learned
from reading his immortal work. His
I was a smooth and uneventful life,
except as it is a dramatic element in
the mighty forces of good which in
the Middle Ages contended with evil,
and which reach forward through time
to eternity. Just now for weighty
! reasons we are turning our eyes to the
'■ Middle Ages, reviewing the lessons of
' history or learning anew the things
taught in the ages of Faith. In the
1 days of "poor scholars," minnesingers,
i chivalry, crusades, the Church Mili-
| tant in temporal affairs, and the Hand
of God in extraordinary intervention
; amid men, we shall find Thomas a
i Kempis, the embodiment of calmness,
| quietness, mental and moral poise, "in
a little nook with a little book" doing
! his work which was to compensate the
| Augustinian Order for the loss of
| another member and the calamity of
j his rebellion. When Luther swept
i human passions into a vast vortex, the
] Imitation of Christ and the prayers
j and labors of its author, cloistered for
' seventy years in humility, obedience,
I and charity within monastic walls at
! Zwolle, was ready as an antidote for
| moral corruption — God's providence
: against evil times.

Thomas Hammerlin was born in
1380, in the village of Kemp, near
Cologne, of lowly and pious parents,
John and Gertrude. The village of
Kemp is so named because of the flat-
ness of the surrounding country, —

campus — and the family name of
Thomas is thought to have originated
from his father's occupation of smith,
or worker in metal, whence "little
Hammer." His mother is said to have
kept a school for children. The older
brother, John, fifteen years the senior
of Thomas, having entered the Augus-
tinian Order of Canons Regular in the
Lower Netherlands, had already made
the name a Kempis famous among his
brethren when little Thomas was sent
for his education to the Brothers of
the Common Life.

The Brothers and Sisters of the
Common Life formed an order in rule
midway between the Benedictines and
the laity. It was founded by a learned
and gifted convert, Gerard de Groote,
a scholar of the University of Paris.
This man, given to worldly life, was
turned to the things of God through a
pious Carthusian who had formerly
been an intimate of Gerard in the
world. Having given his great gifts
to God, Gerard speedily converted
Florentius, a man of noble birth and
great gifts, and about these men
gathered the group of the founders
whom Thomas was to describe for us
in his Lives of the Followers of Flor-
entius. The members supported them-
selves in their community houses by
the labor of their hands, which in that
day was chiefly the copying of books.
They cared for the sick, taught the
poor gratuitously, wrote treatises for
their own communities, and ministered
to the souls of the laity in sermons,
confessions, and counsel. They prac-
ticed in particular the virtues of hu-
mility and charity, and so highly did
they reverence the priesthood that
only the most humble of their number
were advanced to this dignity, and
these often trembled before acceptance
of so great honor and responsibility.

At thirteen years of age Thomas a
Kempis set out, after the fashion of
poor scholars, to join his brother John
at Deventer, a city in Holland. It was
the custom of the poor to aid these
pilgrim scholars with food, and every-

thing needful, on the way; and thus
aided Thomas, alone, arrived at Dev-
enter to find that his brother John had
been transferred to Windesheim, where
Gerard de Groote was then stationed.
Little Thomas proceeded to that place.
Being warmly welcomed by his
brother, he was advised to return to
Deventer in order to be under the care
of Father Florentius. This man re-
ceived him kindly and took him into
his own household, furnishing him
with books and all needful things, and
afterwards placed him with a number
of other boys in the care of a pious
woman, Zedera, widow of the knight
John of Runen, who furnished free
hospitality and care. Thomas has
pictured himself and the school in his
Lives of the Founders, in his gratitude
to Father Florentius and his apprecia-
tion of the virtues of his instructors
and schoolmates. For Father Floren-
tius he had a deep love and reverence,
as noted in many instances which may
be quoted with the more interest be-
cause of the impersonal character of
most of Thomas's writings; thus he
speaks of Florentius who from his
austerities was infirm in health :

"As he stood in the Choir he did not
gaze about with wondering eyes, but
stood very quietly turning toward the
altar, with all restraint and reverence.
Being devoutly intent upon God and
his own soul, he sane the Psalms, so
far as his weakness allowed, in a low
tone, observing the musical directions.
He was so reverent and his aspect
was so devout that many boys and
chanters often gazed at him and ad-
mired his religious fervor, since no
light-mindedness, for which he might
be blamed, could be seen in any word
or gesture. At that time I used to go
into the Choir with the other scholars,
as I was ordered to do by Master
John Boheme, who ruled the scholars
and choristers strictly. As often as
I saw my Master Florentius there —
though he did not look round — I was
careful not to chatter, for I was awed

FRANCISCAN HERALD

January, 1922

by his presence because of the rever-
ence of .lis posture,
learn what was the acceptable and

"Once on a time it happened when I
was standing near him in the Choir
that he turned to share our book for
the chanting, and he, standing behind
me, put his hands upon my shoulders —
but I stood still, hardly daring to
move, bewildered with gratification at
so great an honour."

From this, from his relations with
his brother John, and from other in-
cidents it appears that Thomas was
of a deeply affectionate nature, and
that a great and true love of God such
as the mystic possessed is compatible
with the tenderest human affections.
Again he speaks of serving Florentius
at table:

"Because the weakness of his
stomach suffered him not to take solid
food. . .1 myself, unworthy as I am,
often made ready his table at his re-
quest, and brought from the buttery
that modest draught which he desired,
and I gladly served him with much
cheerfulness of spirit."

How he was furnished with books
and money by Lord Florentius, he tells
thus:

"Master John Boheme also, who was
Rector of the Scholars, and Vicar of
the Great Church, under whose direc-
tion I long attended the school, was a
friend to Florentius, and heard him
gladly, doing what he knew would be
pleasing to God. And when the time
to pay the fees was come, each scholar
brought what was justly due, and I
also put my fee into his hand and
asked for a book which I had deposited
as a pledge for payment. And he hav-
ing some knowledge of me, and aware
that I was under the care of Floren-
tius, said, 'Who gave thee this money?'
and I answered, 'My lord Florentius.'
'Then go,' said he, 'take back his
money, since for love of him I will
take nothing from thee.' So I took
back the money again to my lord
Florentius, and said, 'The Master hath
given back my fee for love of thee.' "

Thomas was equally fortunate in
having for his roommate at this school
a youthful saint, Arnold of Schoon-
hoven, and again in his life of this
follower of Florentius we glimpse the
school and the schooldays of the
mystic :

"So Florentius, perceiving that
Arnold was earnestly disposed to the
service of God and wholly turned
away from the world, gave him leave
to abide in his own ancient House
wherein dwelt divers clerks, about
twenty in all, living at the common
charge, having a common table and

expenditure and serving God with
great devotion. Amongst their num-
ber were three lay Brothers of whom
one was Procurator, who brought all
things necessary for the Community,
the second over the kitchen, and the
third mended the clothes. In after days
some of the Brethren from this House
passed into the order of Canons Regu-
lar, others attained priestly rank, and
by reason of the good examples which
they had seen and learned at Deventer,
bore fruit in other places."

(Thus quaintly does the gentle
Thomas a Kempis declare the praises
of his school, which if less boisterous
than those of modern school boys,
spring from the same human impulse.)

"At this same time, by the aid and
counsel of Florentius, I also took up
my abode in this house, and continued
in the Community for a year, hav-
ing Arnold as my companion, for we
were content to share the one little cell
and bed. Here indeed I learned to
write, to read the Holy Scripture and
books on moral subjects, and to hear
devout discourses; but it was chiefly
through the sweet conversation of the
Brethren that I was yet more strongly
inspired to despise the world; and by
the pious admonitions of Arnold I was
holpen and instructed every day. All
that I was able to earn by writing I
gave for the expenses of the Commu-
nity, and what I lacked, the generous
piety of my beloved Father Floren-
tius defrayed for me, for he succored
me in every way like a father."

Thomas describes fully the extraor-
dinary piety of his roommate, who,
though he shunned the boys' games
and pranks, was able by his holy dis-
course to turn many "away from scur-
rilous talk and laughter." Arnold
persevering in this piety, joined the
Brotherhood, and died comparatively
early in life, being thirty-one years
a clerk.

There were in the school at Deven-
ter about a thousand youths, to two or
three instructors. Erasmus was edu-
cated at the same school. Thomas re-
mained here seven years, and at the
age of nineteen, with the encourage-
ment of Florentius, he determined to
enter the Augustinian Order. He was
sent for his novitiate to his brother,
now first prior of Mt. St. Agnes, near
Zwolle. Here, under his brother's
training, he developed the inherited
skill of the smith, their father, and
became an expert copyist, with pen and
brush. This occupation he pursued,
besides writing his books, to the last
moment of physical endurance of a
long life, and it is said he never re-

quired spectacles for the finest pen
work.

After a five year novitiate, he re-
ceived the habit, but delayed his ordi-
nation for a year. In his novitiate, he
experienced severe interior trials, to
which biographers think he refers in
the Imitation of Christ when he de-
scribes a certain temptation:

"When a certain anxious person who
oftentimes wavered between hope and
fear, once overcome with sadness,
threw himself on the ground in prayer
before one of the altars in the church,
and revolving these things in his mind,
said 'Oh, if I only knew that I would
persevere;' that very instant he heard
'And if thou didst know this, what
wouldst thou do? Do now what thou
wouldst do then, and thou shalt be
perfectly secure.'

"And being immediately consoled
and comforted, he committed himself
to the Divine Will, and his anxious
wavering ceased.

"He had no longer any wish for
curious searchings to find out what
should happen to him, but studied to
learn what was the acceptable and
perfect Will of God for the beginning
and the perfecting of every good
work."

He now began to write, in obedience
to his superior, the treatises for his
Brothers which were later to com-
prise the four books of the Imitation.
For sixty-six years after his ordina-
tion, Thomas lived as a member of the
Augustinian Order, "in the practice
of every virtue of his state." During
these years, he held the offices of mas-
ter of novices, bursar, and twice sub-
prior. The interior and exterior trials
of religious life were his experience,
and his constant victory over himself
makes the counsel of his words rich
in grace and wisdom. Like his master
Florentius, he became celebrated
among the people for his piety and
wisdom, and numbers flocked to him
to receive advice. He always took his
leave of visitors at the earliest possi-
ble moment, saying sometimes that
Someone was waiting for him in his
cell. In this cell alone, he found his
true happiness, and all who have re-
ceived consolation from his writings
have some knowledge of divination of
what that happiness was.

In 1425, the people of Utrecht re-
fused to receive the Archbishop ap-
pointed by Pope Martin, who conse-
quently laid the district under edict.
In 1429, Thomas, who was then sub-
prior at Mt. St. Agnes, obeying the
edict of the Church, incurred the en-
mity of the people and was forced to
lead his unhoused community across

January, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

How I Added $25 a Week
to the Family Income

The story of a mother of two children who became "the best-dressed

woman in town" and surprised her husband by her

business intuition

By Marjorie Jane Dillingham

11 /T7 husband and I were married ten
I VI y ears a £0- Jack was 21. I was
X™JL 18. For a year we were gloriously
happy. Jack wasn't earning a large
salary — only $30 a week — but in those
days that was enough to keep the two
of us in a small but comfortable home.
Then came the first baby — a cuddly little
youngster that we named Dorothy —
after my mother.

I had never been a particularly strong
girl and for some months after the baby
came I was under the doctor's care.
Jack had saved a few hundred dollars,
but it soon melted away under the rain
of bills.

And then — I hate to admit it now —
but I began to feel that Jack didn't care
for me as much as he used to. Perhaps
it was because the cares of motherhood
had taken some of the bloom out of my
cheeks. Or, perhaps, because I felt we
didn't have the money to enable me to
primp up as much as in the first years
of our marriage.

What worried me the most was that

Jack didn't talk things over with me the

way he used to. I knew he was worried

! about making both ends meet — particu-

I larly after little Bobbie was born in 1914.

THEN one night about a year ago — it
seems almost providential when I
think back upon it — I did the simple
little thing that was to change my en-
tire life.

I was reading over the pages of a
magazine when I came across the story
of a woman just like myself. She was
just the average woman — a woman just
like you and me.

'The story told how this woman had
been just as discouraged as I was and
how she had learned at home, in spare
time, through the Woman's Institute, to
make for herself at great savings just
the kind of pretty and becoming clothes
she had always wanted and had earned
money sewing for others.

It seemed almost too good to be true,
but I decided to find out about it, any-
way. So I wrote the Institute. The in-
formation I received by return mail was
so convincing that I became a member
at once and took up Dressmaking.

I didn't say anything to Jack at first,
for I wanted to surprise him. And sur-
prise him I did when one night after
dinner I slipped into a smart and espe-
cially attractive dress and walked into
the parlor to greet some friends who
had dropped in to see us.

They could hardly believe that I had
made such a pretty dress myself. And
when I showed them all the other pretty
things I had made, they were the most
surprised people you ever saw.

And right away one of them wanted
me to make just such a dress for her!

After they had gone, Jack put his arm
around me as he used to do in the old
days and asked me how it happened.

And then I told him all about the
Woman's Institute, and how right at
home in my spare time I had learned to
make more and prettier clothes than I
had ever had, and at a saving of one-
half to two-thirds of what I formerly
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AND then I told Jack that I was sure
. I could do sewing for other people
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Jack was skeptical at first, as any man
might have been, but at last he agreed
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Today I am making $25 to $30 a week
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My husband is as proud as he can be of
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January, 1922

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the Zuyder Zee to the brotherhouse at
Lumenkirk, Friesland. Here they
dwelt until 1432, when Pope Egenius
raised the edict, and there was a joy-
ful homecoming to Mt. St. Agnes.
About this time, John a Kempis died
at Bethany near Arnheim. Thomas
had been able to attend his brother
for the last fourteen months of his
life. In 1448, Thomas was elected
sub-prior for the second time, and he
held this office until his peaceful death
in 1471 in his ninetieth year.

In personal appearance, Thomas
was short and stout in stature, with
heavy Flemish features, and bright,
far-away looking, kindly eyes. Though
usually calm, he was sometimes en-
raptured to enthusiam so that his face
glowed and he seemed about to fly.
Although he had the love of his con-
temporaries in youth and age, he did
not apparently wholly escape slander,
blame, and calumny, as his consoling
passages to humanity reveal in the
Imitation. Besides this book, he wrote
A Soliloquy of the Soul, Solitude and
Silence, Little Garden of Roses, Valley
of Lilies, Church Hymns, Lives of the
Followers of Gerard and Florentius,
and Chronicles of Mt. St. Agnes.
These works were first published at
Nurenberg in 1494.

His favorite books were, after the
Scriptures, the writings of Saints Ber-
nard, Gregory, Ambrose, Thomas
Aquinas, and of Aristotle, Ovid, Sen-
eca, and Dante. A few portraits of
a Kempis survive, showing him either
in his cell or on the grounds of Mt.
St. Agnes, always with a book. He
knew well, says a biographer, the
worth and the glory of a good book.
A manuscript copy of the Imitation
dated 1441, and signed with Thomas's
signature, is now in the Burgundian
library at Brussels. The Imitation
was not printed during his lifetime,
and so indifferent to fame was Thomas
that the authorship has been disputed,
and much controversy has been writ-
ten on the claims of Gersen, an abbot
of the Benedictines, and Gerson, Chan-
cellor of the University of Paris.
Nevertheless, time has given to Thom-
as the merit, regarding which he was
unconcerned.

The Imitation of Christ is psychol-
ogy of a divine content. Before cul-
ling from its books passages revealing
the personal trials of Thomas through
which he became humanity's consoler,
it is interesting to note what manner
of men and women have during the
centuries found strength and peace in
his counsels. It is generally agreed
that, next to the Bible, The Imitation
of Christ is the most beloved and most

widely known book. Leonard Wheat-
ley, one of Thomas's biographers, has
collected the testimonies of famous
men and women both Christian and
pagan, many of whose words are
worth citing.

Readers of George Eliot's novels are
aware of her praise of the Imitation
in The Mill on the Floss. She says:

"It works miracles to this day, turn-
ing bitter waters into sweetness. It
is the chronicle of solitary hidden an-
guish, struggle, trust, and triumph. . .
It remains a lasting record of human
needs and human consolations, the
voice of a brother who ages ago felt
and suffered and renounced. . .under
the same silent heavens and with the
same passionate desires, the same
strivings, the same failures, the same
weariness."

Charles Kingsley calls the Imitation
"the school of many a noble soul."

De Quincey says of it, "Next to the
Bible in European publicity and cur-
rency, the book came forward as an
answer to the sighing of Christian
Europe for light from Heaven."

Compte s?ys, "It is an inextinguish-
able treasure of true wisdom. . .The
poem of the Imitation has been for
years one of the principal daily sources
of nourishment and consolation to my
soul."

Samuel Johnson, Matthew Arnold,
General Gordon, Renan, Michelet,
Leibnitz, numbers of Protestant bish-
ops and other clergymen admire the
Imitation. Saint Ignatius, Francis de
Sales, Thomas More, Lammenais, Bos-
suet, Massillon, Corneille and Lamar-
tine, scholars, saints, poets, and theo-
logians, unite in its praise. Even luke-
warm Catholics know and love the Imi-
tation, and those who aspire to piety
have a custom of placing a finger with-
in the pages to see what counsel the
mystic will provide for their present
trouble and need. The Catholic edi-
tions are provided with meditations
and prayers, and the nature of the
fourth book, which treats of Holy Com-
munion, makes the Imitation a treas-
ure of instruction and inspiration.

The Imitation is a true poem, writ-
ten in Latin in rhythmic composi-
tion, and having the exaltation of soul
which makes true poetry. Latin was
a familiar tool of the educated in
Thomas's day and place, and that
which he employs in his treatises
shows the vigor and the customs of
his locality. The four books show a
progression in mystic life instructing
the reader on the Interior Life, — the
following of Christ; on interior con-
versation with Christ; on the interior
discourse of Christ to a faithful soul;

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and with how great reverence Christ
is to be received. Biographers cite
oftenest, in selections from the Imita-
tion, his enraptured description of love,
and the desire of eternal life. After
these, his consolation to desolate souls,
to those suffering blame or condemna-
tion or humiliation, to those moved by
ambition and unrest, to those in doubt
and spiritual fear, most readily and
widely appeal to humanity.

"He that followeth Me walketh not
in darkness, saith the Lord." Thus
begins the Imitation, which is there-
fore often called the Following of
Christ. And thus a Kempis begins the
book addressed to the people of the
age of the Reformation.

With the rise of the Jesuit Order to
stem the tides of Luther's rebellion,
and with the invention of printing
which made copying of books an obso-
lete occupation, the activities of the
Brothers of the Common Life began
to decline. The Jesuits took charge of
the schools, and the Brothers were
absorbed in the Augustinian Order.
In Thomas's "booklet" as it was first
called, the Brothers still gave their
message to a time of pride and its
blindness :

"These are the words of Christ
whereby we are admonished how we
must imitate His life and conversa-
tion if we would be truly enlightened
and delivered from all blindness of
heart.

"Let it then be our chief study to
meditate on the life of Jesus Christ.
The teaching of Christ surpasseth all
the teachings of the saints and he that
hath His Spirit will find therein a
hidden manna.

"But it happeneth that many from
frequent hearing of the Gospel, feel
little emotion, because they have not
the Spirit of Christ.

"But he that would fully and with
relish understand the words of Christ
must study to conform his whole life
to Him."

These first simple statements ex-
plain the life of Thomas and the fruit,
— which is his immortal book. From
broken and blighted lives God has
sometimes evolved sainthood or some
great redeeming act — a great poem, as
in the case of Francis Thompson. In
the Hound of Heaven, Thompson cries :

"Ah, must — Designer Infinite —

"Ah, must Thou char the wood ere
Thou canst limn with it?"

The Imitation teaches us that this
is not necessary, so one's whole life
is conformed to Christ. Beauty and
Truth in the Imitation have, beyond
such poem as The Hound of Heaven,
the crown of lifelong fidelity and wis-

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dom. Error and sin are not necessary
for the gaining of knowledge.

Many times does a Kempis insist on
the vanity and danger of much learn-
ing, of worldly knowledge:

"Every man naturally desireth to
know; but what doth knowledge avail
without fear of God?

"Truly a lowly rustic that serveth
God is better than a proud philosopher
who pondereth the courses of the stars
and neglecteth himself."

"The highest and most useful lesson
we can learn is this: To know truly
and to look down upon ourselves.

"To think nothing of ourselves, and
always to judge well and highly of
others is a great wisdom and high
perfection."

These sentences sum up his counsels
to humility and charity. Other vir-
tues, — truth, silence, prudence, trust
in God, are the subject of his first
book. His wisdom he draws from his
own experience, from the Scripture,
from the Holy Spirit, and from the
teachings of his own teachers, the
Founders.

Following are passages which apply
as aptly to persons in the world as to
those in the religious life:

"As long as we live in this world
we can not be without tribulation and
temptation.

"It is good for us now and then to
have some troubles and adversities:
for oftentimes they make a man enter
into himself, that he may know that
he is an exile, and place not his hopes
in anything of this world.

"It is good for us sometimes to
suffer contradictions, and to allow
people to think ill and slightingly of
us, even when we do and mean well.

"These are often helps to humility
and rid us of vainglory.

"For then we more earnestly seek
God to be the witness of what passes
within, when outwardly we are slight-
ed by men and incur their discredit.

"Therefore a man ought so firmly to
establish himself in God as to have
no need of seeking many human con-
solations."

From the Imitation a sheaf of prov-
erbs may be gathered :

"Fire trieth iron, and temptation a
just man. He doth much who loveth
much. He <oth much who doth well
what he hath to do. He doth well
who regardeth the common good
rather than his own will."

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though designed for the religious. The
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the well-loved chapters on the carry-
ing of the Cross.

The third book is largely in the
form of dialog between Christ and
the soul, a device which gives the
effect of actual companionship with
Christ even to ordinary readers:

"What is it thou sayest, my son?
Cease to complain, and consider My
Passion, and that of the other Saints.

"Son, take it not to heart if some
people think ill of thee and say of thee
what thou art not willing to hear.

"Son, I am the Lord who giveth
strength in the day of tribulation.
Come to me when it is not well with
thee.

"Son, take it not to heart if thou
seest others honored and advanced and
thyself despised and debased. . .Lift
up thy heart to me in heaven, and the
contempt of men upon earth will not
grieve thee.

"Son, let not the labours which
thou hast undertaken for My sake
crush thee, neither let tribulation from
whatever source cast thee down; but
in every occurrence let my promise
strengthen and console thee.

J 'Son, patience and humility under
adversity please me more than much
consolation and devotion in prosperity.

"All is not lost though thou feel
thyself often afflicted or grievously
tempted.

"All is not lost when anything falls
out contrary to what thou wouldst
have it.

"Wait for Me, wait; I will come and
cure thee.

"What doth solicitude about future
contingencies bring thee but only sor-
row upon sorrow? Sufficient for the
day is the evil thereof."

It is in the fourth book especially
that Thomas speaks of his sins, of his
lack of merit, after the way of saints ;
yet it makes his aspirations suitable
generally as communion prayers. Hav-
ing the greatest reverence for the
Blessed Sacrament and the most ex-
alted love, he trembles for his imper-
fections and unworthiness; yet he lays
stress on the loving invitation of Jesus,
who supplies for human defects, and
he does not terrify those whom he
instructs. He interprets the sweet-
ness of Christ in His words: "Come
unto Me, all ye who are heavy laden,"
and formulates prayers which the
most timid and desolate soul may sin-
cerely utter as well as others which
if understood require exalted courage
to say sincerely.

The biographies of many of the
great saints, Teresa, John of the Cross,
and others are well-known, their per-
secutions and peculiar afflictions are
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January, 1922

enlightenment. This extraordinary life,
— the mystic's trials, remain untold in
detail, perhaps in accordance with the
Brother's principles of humility and
charity, and we must guess the ex-
periences of Thomas from his counsel,
and from his prayers:

"I offer up also to Thee prayers, and
this Sacrifice of Propitiation for them
in particular who have in any way
injured me, grieved me, or abused me,
or have inflicted upon me any hurt or
injury."

Yet it may be that these apparent
afflictions were grievous only because
of the refinement of spirit and the ex-
alted view of perfection which he and
his brethren held, and would be deemed
insignificant by ordinary observers.
Among the Brothers of the Common
Life, as among the followers of Saint
Francis, peace and love generally pre-
vailed. And again he continues his
prayer accusing himself of faults
which could not have been grievous :

"And for all those likewise whom I
have at any time grieved, troubled
oppressed or scandalized, by words or
deeds, knowingly or unknowingly; that
it may please Thee to forgive us all
our sins and mutual offences."

Such a view of himself fits Thomas
to speak for others, as has been said,
— to represent the heart of humanity
in the showing of his own heart, "Turn
for me all earthly things into bitter-
ness, all things grievous and adverse
into patience, and all low and created
things into contempt and oblivion."

In this, Thomas speaks rather for
himself than for humanity; since not
every one finds himself willing to pray
thus. And those who unwillingly have
been brought to similar state are minds
of genius who bear witness to his
knowledge of human nature and his
extraordinary virtue.

That a Kempis should be a Ter-
tiary of Saint Francis, is to be ex-
pected from the character of the man
and his advancement in gentleness,
humility, and charity. He had, indeed,
turned all adverse things not only in-
to patience but into cheerfulness and
joy. While the whole of the Imitation
is a poem, such parts as his descrip-
tion of love, of the carrying of the
cross, and the desire of eternal life
are poetic beyond other parts, and in
structure and exaltation resemble the
Sun Song of Saint Francis. To the
Imitation, modern Catholic poets owe
a debt; since he has brought the in-
spiration of the Scriptures so near to
the language of poets. Joyce Kilmer's
poems of love for the Blessed Sacra-
ment sometimes paraphrase in rime
the very words of a Kempis. Cardinal
Newman and Aubrey de Vere are in-

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debted to him. Francis Thompson's
mystical poems, The Mistress of
Vision, An Anthem of Earth, The Yew
Tree and others, are drawn from this
intermediate source between the laity
and the Poverello.

There will always be fresh interest
in the Imitation of Christ and its au-
thor, with successive generations of
readers ; yet there is no need of propa-
ganda to make this book known, nor
rivalry between it and newer books.
It creates a relish for all spiritual
works. One may wonder, neverthe-
less, in these days of madness over
spiritism, which of the gifted minds
of today are finding the Imitation the
daily food and nourishment of their
souls as Compte did. And if so, why
does the fad of false mysticism re-
cruit so many. The only explanation
is to be found in Dr. Ralph Adams
Cram's little book, The Nemesis of
Mediocrity, in which he astoundingly
and boldly claims that there are few,
if any, great minds in this generation,
the democracy of the world having re-
duced all to a dead level. Such dis-
covery at least is a long stride back
to the saints and to true mysticism.

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LET TJS FRAY — We beseech Thee, there-
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purgatory, whom Thou hast redeemed
with Thy Precious Blood. (Three hun-
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INTENTIONS

The following intentions are recom-
mended to the pious prayers of our read-
ers:

For the conversion of a father (10). For
the conversion of brothers and sisters (20).
For steady employment (30). For success
in studies (5). For a suitable home (10).
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from intemperance. For cure from the
habit of using evil language. In thanks-
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to Our Lady of Perpetual Succor for res-
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the Pope. For the spread of the Third
Order. For special intentions (40).

LET US PRAY— Let the ears of Thy
mercy, O Lord, be open to the prayers
of Thy supplicants; and that Thou mayest
grant them their desires, make them ask
such things as please Thee, through Jesus
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WRITING of Leslie Moore's
novels, in the Catholic
World for March, Rev. Ed-
ward F. Carrigan, S. J., quotes John
Burroughs as saying:

"A novelist labeled in the public
estimation as Catholic, must be con-
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preciation of Leslie Moore's novels,
awakens additional interest in the
newest novels of this class to come
to us from England. The Greenway,
by Miss Moore, The Hare, by Ernest
Oldmeadow, which follows his
"Coggin," Flame of the Forest, by
Constance E. Bishop, Tressider's
Sister, by Isabel Clarke and The Di-
vine Adventure, by Theodore May-
nard are all of a certain type of
Catholic novel which we need bet-
ter to understand. Because they
have not the depth and height and
power of the novels of Robert Hugh
Benson, Canon Sheehan, and the
earlier novels of John Ayscough,
they are liable to severe criticism by
admirers of the greater novels. Yet
the class of Catholic readers who
did not like Monsignor Benson's
novels, and did not wholly fathom
Canon Sheehan's books, is a large
class, and it is for these readers that
the later novelists are writing. Enid
Dinnis in Edward Coleman, Gent,
aspires to follow Benson, and gives
a book of unusual strength and
depth and charm. Isabel Clarke in
her latest touches the great theme
of present industrial conditions in
England, as our Father Richard
Ammerle Maher has aimed in his
novel, The Heart of a Man. Flame
of the Forest ventures into the great
theme of Oriental occultism. May-
nard's story is personal and de-
scribes the "sheltered versus the ac-
tive life." These are all novels
which will be read eagerly and with

delight by readers for whom they
are intended. Others will note the
lack in some of them, — a skimming
of possibilities where great oppor-
tunity in the novel lies.

Flame of the Forest does not
show cause for its title. Tressider's
Sister, Aubrey, was hardly the girl
to play the heroine in the Milbor-
ough situation. The Greenway, by
Leslie Moore, is the most satisfac-
tory because it has not a great
theme, except that one which is not
thought great because of its fa-
miliarity — remembrance of God.
Her poems heading her chapters,
taken from an imaginary "Brown
Book," are not comparable to those
which Theodore Maynard puts into
The Divine Adventure, but her de-
scriptions of the moorland are prose
poems, and her gentle reminders of
the duty of thanking God and seek-
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If, as Burroughs has said, these
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faults. When finally she answered
the call, her burning zeal embraced
the conversion of the world. Her
younger sister was the confident of
these innocent plans. Soon the
shadows began to fall over the
happy family, and the proscription
of the revolutionists extended to
Victoire's convent as well as to her
parents who were imprisoned.
Victoire in her prison made herself
an angel of comfort and light to the
wretched fellow-prisoners, convert-
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cheering her parents by her letters
and her cheerful and resolute resig-
nation to her fate. Her crime had
been the painting and distributing
of badges of the Sacred Heart. This
she continued to do among the pris-
oners while confined awaiting exe-
cution. She also served them as
nurse, instructor and councillor. A
severe trial of this time was her sep-
aration from her parents, who were
reunited with her, again, however,
on the eve of their execution. Her
last act of mercy was the prepara-
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Grattan, Flood and O'Connell
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Preliminary steps have been taken by
the Sacred Congregation of Rites, in
Rome, for the beatification of the fol-
lowing servants of God who belonged to
one of the three Orders founded by St.
Francis:

Ven. Francis de Camporosco, a Ca-
puchin lay brother;

Ven. Andrew Philemon Garcia Acosta,
a lay brother of the Order of Friars
Minor;

Four Franciscan Bishops, Gregory
Grassi, Francis Fogolla, Antony Fan-
toiiati, and Theotime Verhaegen, to-
gether with their companions, all of
whom were martyred in China in the
year 1900;

Ven. Anne Mary, a Poor Clare nun;

Ven. Mary of the Passion, foundress
of the Congregation of the Franciscan
Missionary Sisters of Mary;

Ven. Mary of the Assumption Pallotta,
a Franciscan Missionary Sister of Mary;

Ven. Bernadette Soubiroux, to whom
the Blessed Virgin appeared at Lourdes,
in 1858, and who belonged to the Secular
Third Order before she entered the con-
vent.

Ven. Joseph Cafasso, a secular priest
and member of the Third Order.

The well-known novelist and literary
critic, Countess Emilia de Pardo Bazan,
who recently departed this life in
Madrid, Spain, at the age of 69 years,
was an ardent admirer of St. Francis
and for many years a child of his in the
Third Order. Her literary masterpiece
is without doubt "The Life of St. Fran-
cis," of which many editions appeared
since 1881, when it was published for
the first time. A distinguished member
of the Royal Academy considers this
work one of the most precious pearls of
Spanish literature.

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in order are those of Zizurkil, Idiazabil,
Berastegi, and Segura, all of which date
back to the eighteenth century.

The Prime Minister of Holland, Ch.
Ruijs Beerenbrouk, contributes a splen-
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the Franciscans of Holland in com-
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the founding of the Third Order. His
contribution is entitled, "The Third
Order and the Conciliation of the
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lowest to the highest, hastened with
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also in our country. From all classes,
especially in the last years, many
Catholics have joined the Third Order.
Let us hope that during the jubilee year
the Third Order may expand still more.
Would that in the higher circles, espe-
cially among those in public life, the
conviction may gain ground that the
Third Order is a sure means of bring-
ing the different classes together in love
and peace."

A Franciscan missionary in China
writes: "I have as companion, here at
Petang, a lay brother who has been in
China for the past twenty years. He is
in charge of the dispensary, that is,
every morning he attends and dis-
tributes medicine gratis to all the sick
who present themselves, whether they
be pagans or Christians. If summoned,
he visits those who are seriously ill in
their homes. Even the Europeans of
Shansi call on him in time of sickness."

Of the fifty-two vicariates in China,
ten are in charge of the Franciscans:
North Shantung, since 1839; Central
Shensi and North Shansi, since 1844;
East Hupe and South Hunan, since 1856;
Northwest and Southwest Hupe, since

1870; South Shansi, since 1890; East
Shantung, since 1894; and North Shensi,
since 1911. All told, the total popula-
tion of these ten vicariates comprises
about 85,000,000 souls, of whom 279,650
have been converted to the Catholic
faith and are cared for spiritually and,
to a great extent, also materially by the
sons of St. Francis in their numerous
missions. We may add that the friars
are assisted in their priestly duties by
about 130 native priests, who all are
members of the Third Order.

The Franciscan mission field of East
Shantung, China, which numbers 9,000,-
000 inhabitants, is cared for by 40 mis-
sionaries, including 11 native Tertiary
priests, by 58 Franciscan Missionary
Sisters of Mary, including 17 native
Sisters, and by 139 catechists. They
take care of 1,095 congregations of
Christians, numbering 15,207 neophytes
and 18,853 catechumens. During the
past year, 627 adults and 493 children
received Baptism, while 401 adults and
2,346 children were baptized at the hour
of death. There are, in this vicariate,
170 day-schools, 2 boarding-schools, 4
orphanages, 1 leper house, 4 dispen-
saries for the poor, and a large number
of workshops.

From the Revue Franciscaine we
learn that the Sacred Congregation of
the Propaganda will erect a new mis-
sion field in the extreme south of Japan,
comprising for the present the two sta-
tions of Kagoshima and Sandai. The
Franciscans of Canada are to be in
charge. It is on the southernmost island
of Kyushu, where St. Peter Baptist and
his Companions, of whom six were his
confreres in the First Order and seven-
teen Franciscan Tertiaries, gained the
crown of martyrdom in 1597.

Dr. Margaret Lamont, who is a mem-
ber of the Third Order of St. Francis, is
straining every effort to realize her plan
of founding a Society of Catholic Women
Physicians whose field of labor shall
eventually be the mission territories of
India. It is well known how amor.g the
Hindus, for example, many women and
girls die without having received cate-
chetical instruction and the Sacrament
of Baptism. The Sacred Congregation
of the Propaganda has approved the
plan of Dr. Lamont. The Constitution
which she drew up for the Society is
based on the Rule of the Third Order.

January, 1922

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Dublin, Ireland

As in all the various Third Order
centers in Ireland, so also in Dublin,
a solemn triduum was held in prep-
aration for the feast of St. Francis.
The religious exercises were very
well attended. People say they can
not remember ever having seen the
faithful gather in such large num-
bers in our spacious church. The
Rt. Rev. Bishops of Killaloe and
Dromore presided, on the three days,
at the solemn High Mass and the
solemn vespers. On Sunday even-
ing, the Rev. Fr. Joseph, 0. S. F. C,
delivered an impressive sermon on
"The Message of St. Francis." Rev.
Albert O'Neill, 0. P., preached elo-
quently, on Monday evening, his
theme being "The Third Order and
Today." On the morning of the
feast of St. Francis, the Rev.
Thomas Murphy, S. J., held the at-
tention of his hearers with an elab-
orate discourse on "The Third Or-
der and Ireland."

Palestrina, Italy

Last month, an historic pageant
was held in honor of Giovanni
Pierluigi, commonly known as Pa-
lestrina, from the little town where,
in 1526, the famous musician saw
the light. A notable feature of
this recent celebration was the un-
veiling of a magnificent statue of
pure carrara marble. Pierluigi is
represented holding in his left hand
an open volume of musical composi-
tions and directing his gaze toward
heaven, whither also his right hand
is pointing as to the source whence
he drew inspiration for those won-
derful productions that have earned
him a place among the greatest
musicians of all times. The base of
the monument is artistically adorned
with various allegorical figures, and
on one side it bears the inscription:
John Peter Aloysius of Palestrina —
Prince of Music. As is well known,
the man thus honored was a Ter-
tiary of St. Francis.

Domestic

On November 21, Fr. Antony Sousa,
O. F. M., pastor of the Church of St.
Leonard, in Boston, Mass., was laid to
rest. For many years he labored for the
propagation of the Third Order and also
founded the Home for the Aged, on Cen-
ter Street, Dorchester. A large dele-

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gation of Tertiaries gathered in the
church to show their love and respect for
the zealous friar whose loss means so
much for the Third Order in this coun-
try.

On November 8, the congregation of
the Unitarian Parish, First Church, in
Cambridge, Mass., had the well-known
Catholic lecturer and poet, Denis A.
McCarthy, deliver his discourse on St.
Francis and read his hymn on the Cen-
tenary of the Third Order. The good
people listened with rapt attention to
the speaker's vivid portrayal of the vir-
tues of the great Saint of Assisi. Mr.
McCarthy is a writer of international
repute and is greatly interested in
things Franciscan.

On Wednesday morning, October 26,
in the monastery of the Poor Clares, in
New Orleans, La., Sister Mary Clare
pronounced the solemn vows and thus
consecrated herself forever to the serv-
ice of God in the austere Order of St.
Clare. Rev. Samuel Macke, 0. F. M.,
presided at the ceremonies as delegate
of the Very Rev. P.ovincial of the
Sacred Heart Province. The sermon
was delivered by Very Rev. E. A. Cum-
mings, S. J., of Loyola University.

On November 16, the new chapel of
the Poor Clares, atFruitvale, Calif., was
solemnly dedicated by His Grace, Most
Rev. E. J. Hanna, D. D., Archbishop of
San Francisco. After the dedication,
Very Rev. Hugolin Storff, 0. F. M., Min-
ister Provincial of the Santa Barbara
Province, sang the solemn High Mass
and delivered the sermon. From now
on, the Blessed Sacrament will be ex-
posed in the chapel every day for public
adoration.

Buckman, Minn. — At the close of a
very successful mission preached by the
Rev. Franciscan Fathers Didacus and
Joseph Calasanz in St. Michael's
Church, thirty persons were enrolled in
the Third Order of St. Francis, seven
of them being men. The Third Order
now counts sixty members in this par-
ish, where meetings are held regularly
every month by the zealous pastor, Rev.
Henry Leuthner.

January, 1922

reputation and provided a musical treat
such as Quincy music lovers seldom
have an opportunity to enjoy. His pro-
gram, ranging from stately Haendel
numbers to Irish ballads, was rendered
with true artistic ability. Many of
Quincy's leading musicians attended the
concert and all were warm in their
praise of Mr. Burke's work.

Another feature of the Thanksgiving
celebration was the first annual reunion
of the Commercial Alumni. The event
opened with a solemn high Mass at 8:30
in the morning. The music for the Mass,
rendered by the college choir with a
twelve-piece orchestra accompaniment,
surpassed anything of a similar nature
put on at the college for a number of
years past. A business meeting at 10:30
resulted in the forming of a permanent
Commercial Alumni Association and the
drafting of a Constitution. Also officers
were elected at this meeting and Quincy
was again voted the convention city for
1922.

At 1 o'clock luncheon was served to
the visitors, and at 3 o'clock most of
the alumni took in Tom Burke's concert.
Among the distinguished guests were
Mayor and Mrs. P. J. O'Brien, Tom
Burke, and Thomas Gillespie, Grand
Knight of the Quincy Council of the
Knights of Columbus.

This first reunion marks an important
event in the history of our commercial
department, as it resulted in the forma-
tion of a permanent society whose pur-
pose is not only to promote good fel-
lowship, but also to render mutual aid
among its members.

On Dec. 7, Quincy College witnessed
the performance of another artist, Mr.
C. E. W. Griffith, the well-known
Shakespearean reader and impersonator.
In the afternoon he read "Twelfth
Night," and in the evening "Othello."
Both renditions were splendid examples
of Mr. Griffith's ability and they proved
both interesting and instructive to all
present.

The college lost its oldest inmate and
one of its most devoted workers when
death claimed Brother Novatus, on No-
vember 27. He died at St. Mary's Hos-
pital, after a short illness. Brother
Novatus has been connected with Quincy
College, as bookkeeper, for more than
thirty years.

The principal business transacted in
the November meeting of the Third
Order fraternity of Quincy College, in
Quincy, 111., was the appointment of a
committee to draw up a definite plan of
activity which will be brought up for
adoption at the next regular meeting.

Thanksgiving Day was a memorable
one for Quincy College, and tht for
several reasons. The Tom Burke con-
cert in the afternoon was the biggest
event of the day. Heralded as one of
the greatest singers now before the pub-
lic, the young tenor fully lived up to his

Solemn investment and profession
recently took place at St. Antony's
Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. To the
great joy of all, three young ladies
joined the ranks of the Franciscan
Sisters; three members of the com-
munity made their first profession;
and six pronounced their final vows.
An unusual feature of the festivi-
ties was the fact that Rev. Mother
General, Sr. Mary Veneranda, and
her assistant, Ven. Sr. M. Chrysan-
tha, both from Salzkotten, Germany,
were present.

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A monthly magazine edited and published by the Friars Minor of the Sacred Heart Province in the interests of the
Third Order and of the Franciscan Missions.

Volume X

FEBRUARY, 1922

Number 2

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CONTENTS

EDITORIALS

Our Mission Picture — The Catholic Press
and You — Father Ketcham's Successor
— Congratulations 51

THE THIRD ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS

Chats with Tertiaries 54

By Fr. Giles, 0. F. M.
On Being a Modern Catholic Woman 56

By Agnes Modesta.

MISSIONS

A Trip to Mouth of Yellow River 59

By Fr. Odoric, O. F. M.

A Chance for You 60

Our Benefactors 61

FICTION

Who Wins? 62

By Blanche Weitbrec.
Resting Comfortably 66

By Will W. Whalen.

MISCELLANEOUS

Memory's Gardens 69

By Marian Nesbitt

IN THE INTEREST OF WOMEN 71

By Grace Keon

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FIRESIDE TALKS AND TALES

By Elizabeth Rose

IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS 85

By Paul Richards

Our Mission Picture

Mission San Diego — the cradle of Christianity and
civilization in California. It was founded by Fr.
Junipero Serra on July 16, 1769, and dedicated to
the Franciscan St. Didacus (San Diego) of Alcala. It
occupied the bluff overlooking what is now Old Town
until August, 1774, when it was removed to a more
favorable site, called Nipaguay by the Indians, five
miles farther up on the northern slope of beautiful
Mission Valley. Here, a year later, on November 5,
the pagan Indians of the neighboring rancherias at-
tacked the mission, set fire to the buildings and
brutally murdered Fr. Luis Jayme, who thus became
the proto-martyr of California. Then, as Fr. Serra
predicted, a period of comparative peace and pros-
perity followed, both spiritually and materially, at
least as far as the Indians were concerned. At the
end of 1784, the register showed 1,075 Indian Bap-
tisms; and 4,919 at the end of 1821. In that year,
Mexico won her independence from Spain but lost
interest in and gradually control over her California
colonies. Dark days followed, also for Mission San
Diego, days of dire need and harrowing anxiety. On
September 20, 1834, the mission was "secularized,"
that is, confiscated by the Mexican government in
California, and placed in charge of a commissioner.
The rest can be imagined by contemplating our cover
page. The picture was taken near where in days
gone by the main altar stood, and where beneath
the old tiles three of the earliest missionaries lie
buried — FF. Luis Jayme, Juan Figuer, and Juan
Mariner. Of the church the front only and a portion
of the east wall are still standing; the rooms of the
missionaries to the rear of the church are a heap
of ruins; while of the corridors and buildings that
once closed in the spacious patio nothing remains
but a small portion of the front wall adjoining the
church.

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The Catholic Press and You

THE month of February has been set aside as
"Catholic Press Month." During this month
we are urged to direct all our efforts toward
the spreading of good Catholic literature. We daily
perceive how hostile the evil press is to the Church,
how it corrupts everything, public opinion, politics,
art, and how it does this with incredible audacity.
The godless press has debased Christian society; the
good press must therefore constantly be pitted
against it. It is the sacred duty of every Catholic to
support the Catholic Press to the utmost.

If the Church is to be served and defended by the
Press, then the publishers, editors and contributors
must ever be conscious of their all-important, God-
given mission. The cause they serve must at all
times be uppermost in their minds; to this all other
things, their own needs and personal ambition, must
be subservient. The particular paper or magazine
they represent is only a means to and end. It will
pass away and be supplanted, but the cause will go
on to the end of time. It is well worth the sacrifice
of our time, our comfort, and our health. Only such
writers and publishers will succeed in this vast field,
as are loyal enough to espouse the cause whole-
heartedly, and broad-minded enough to rejoice at
the success of others. It must, therefore, be their
aim to help and encourage one another. The field
is large enough for all, and the work so varied in
its details, that all may find ample opportunity for
the exercise of their talents.

The enemies of God and of His holy Church, fully
aware of the power of the press, strain every effort
to avail themselves of it. They multiply their pub-
lications by the thousands and send them broadcast
through the land. We, as good Catholics, must first
of all be firm in our opposition to these publications,
whether they appear in the shape of a paper, a maga-
zine, or a book. To buy and keep such literature is
to support a most formidable enemy of the Church;
to expose ourselves and others to the occasion of sin.
Catholic parents must insist on knowing what books
and papers come into their household. The poison
is often so cleverly concealed that even the wary
can be deceived ; wherefore, it is better to be too
careful than not careful enough.

Every Catholic is further obliged to counteract the
effects of the evil press by spreading good literature.
Here are a few ways of doing this:

Make it a point to take with you to your office,
shop, or factory some Catholic literature — books,

papers, pamphlets, leaflets, and the like, — and place
them where others are apt to find them. Do the
same in street cars, trains, and railroad stations.
When you have finished your Catholic paper, let it
lie; it will soon find another reader who may stand
in need of enlightenment on points of Catholic doc-
trine and practice. Do not destroy your Catholic
publications. Pass them on to your neighbor or send
them to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, or to the
Chaplains who have charge of City and State institu-
tions. Demand Catholic newspapers, magazines, and
books at news stands and in public libraries. Ac-
custom your children to read Catholic publications.
In this way they will learn to love and value them
and in later life will not wish to be without them.
Form small reading circles among your friends, and
let each member subscribe to a different paper or
periodical. The members of the circle can then ex-
change publications with one another. Such reading
circles can readily be formed in every parish. There
are always willing and intelligent men and women
who could band together for this purpose. And think
how they would benefit the poor, the afflicted, the
recent converts, who would welcome Catholic pub-
lications and who would derive untold good there-
from.

We have many Church societies organized for re-
ligious, social, and charitable purposes. No matter
how their constitution is worded, they owe it to
themselves to espouse the cause of the Catholic
Press. They have every opportunity for doing so.
All they need is an energetic leader. The spreading
of Catholic literature should be part of their activity.
Let them have a special press committee, whose busi-
ness it should be to secure subscriptions to papers
and magazines of good repute, to distribute gratis
tracts and leaflets bearing on Catholic practices and
doctrines, to keep themselves posted on the latest
books, and to remain constantly in touch with the
officials of the public libraries. It could also be one
of their duties to report on all Catholic activities
to their local daily or weekly papers. Such a com-
mittee would, in a short time, be the mainstay of a
society or club and would keep it from decadence.
Frequently, pastors deliver forceful and practical
sermons on timely topics and propose well-laid plans
for social action. These could easily be transmitted
to posterity, if the committees on the press would
but take the trouble to send them to some Catholic
paper or magazine for publication.

February, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

If you are blessed with literary ability and a good
education, show your gratitude to God by contribut-
ing articles to Catholic papers and periodicals. This
is a very efficient way to help the cause of the Catho-
lic Press. We know of a man, who though burdened
with daily and strenuous duties, made the firm reso-
lution — and kept it — to write one article every week
for the Catholic Press. And there are many Catholic
men and women in the professional and business
world who could easily do likewise. This would go
far toward raising the standard of Catholic litera-
ture and refuting the oft-repeated, but wholly un-
warranted, assertion that everything Catholic is in-
ferior. The efforts of such writers, however, must
be encouraged. We must often speak of them, en-
quire at book-stores about them, and strive to create
a taste for their works. So far there has been too much
adverse criticism regarding our Catholic writers and
too little acquaintance with them.

The owner of a large factory has the custom of
buying Catholic literature and distributing it gratis
among his employes, and this he does twice a year.
Surely, an excellent way of doing his share for the
Catholic Press. A rich lady, anxious to aid in the
cause, gives her pastor every year enough money
to present Catholic calendars and booklets to all his
parishioners. Another woman donates a certain
sum every year to societies organized for the relief
of the poor, with the stipulation that the money be
spent for Catholic books and papers. Another per-
son jots down in a note book the addresses of those
whom he meets at conventions, in his business, and
on his travels. To some of these he regularly sends
copies of Catholic publications; the names of others
he forwards to Catholic publishers requesting that
sample copies be mailed them. "At the end of the
year," he says, "it is gratifying to recall all the good
I have done in this way."

The following words of Pope Pius IX are as true
today as when they were first spoken: "Our time
needs more defenders of truth with the pen than
defenders of truth on the pulpit. Therefore, all those
who have the eternal welfare of themselves and
others at heart, and especially those whose duty it
is to defend the faith from the pulpit, should do
their best to work continually against the godless
press, above all by supporting and spreading the good
press."

The suggestions enumerated above contain nothing
impracticable or impossible. Let us, therefore, unite
in the support of the good press. Let each one choose
the method best suited to his state and ability, and
then go to work with a will. It is the work of apostles
and our reward will be that of the Apostles. "All
should take part in this apostolate," the late Car-
dinal Vaughan used to say. "Here, at least, there is
work for everyone. For one who can write, ten
thousand can subscribe, and one hundred thousand
can scatter the seed."

Father Ketcham's Successor

The friends and benefactors of our missions have
reason to be happy over the appointment of Rev.
William Hughes as Director of the Bureau of Catho-
lic Indian Missions. Like his predecessor, Right
Rev. Monsignor William H. Ketcham, who was called
so suddenly from his labors last November 14, Father
Hughes is not only well acquainted with Mission
affairs but intensely interested in all that per-
tains to the welfare of our deeply wronged and
long neglected aborigines.

Three years after his ordination to the priesthood,
eager to consecrate himself to mission work among
the San Jacinto Indians of his native California,
Father Hughes spent some time in Mexico to perfect
himself in the Spanish language. Thereupon he la-
bored among the Indians of Soboba, Cahuilla, Santa
Rosa, San Isidro, and San Ignacio, in Southern Cali-
fornia. They are known as the Mission Indians,
being lineal descendants of the natives who a century
and a half ago heeded the summons of Fr. Junipero
Serra and his fellow missionaries and eventually
shared in the blessings of Christianity and civiliza-
tion at Missions San Diego, San Luis Rey, San Juan
Capistrano, and San Gabriel.

In 1916, Father Hughes was called to Washington,
D. C, to assist Monsignor Ketcham in directing the
affairs of the Indian Bureau. In this capacity of
Assistant Director he worked for the next six years,
studying the Indian Question, giving lectures on
mission work among the Indians, and writing articles
on this subject for newspapers and magazines. As
a fruit of his interest in the dwindling red race of
our country may be mentioned also a valuable col-
lection he has made at first hand of primitive Indian
beliefs, which we hope will soon appear in book form.

While FRANCISCAN HERALD congratulates
Father Hughes on his latest appointment and wishes
him a sincere "ad multos annos," we request our
readers to recommend his new and arduous labors
to God in daily prayer, so that under his direction
the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions may continue
to defend and advance the cause it represents.

Congratulations

A true and faithful follower of St. Francis, a priest
of the New Law according to the heart of God, a kind
superior serving rather than ruling, a prudent di-
rector and educator of American youth for almost
half a century, a congenial confrere whom to love
and esteem his brethren had but to know — such the
Reverend Peter Wallischeck, who, on January 3, in
Santa Barbara, California, solemnly commemorated
the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into the Order
of Friars Minor. What wonder that the day saw
joy and gladness on every countenance and heard
prayers ascending from a thousand grateful hearts
to the throne of God, prayers of fervent thanksgiving
for a bounteous, happy meridian and prayers of hum-
ble petition for a serene, hopeful evening. With all
his brethren and friends, FRANCISCAN HERALD
extends to Father Peter sincerest congratulations.

CHATS WITH TERTIARIES

By Fr. Giles, O. F. M.

ONE of the most touching inci-
dents in the dealings of our
Blessed Savior with the men
and women He met during His jour-
neyings through Palestine, is His
conversation with the rich young
man who wished to follow Him. The
Evangelist tells the story thus:
"And when He was gone forth into
the way, a certain man running up
and kneeling before Him and asked
Him, 'Good Master, what shall I do
that I may receive life everlasting?'
And Jesus said to him, 'Why callest
thou me good? None is good but
one, that is God. Thou knowest the
commandments: Do not commit
adultery, do not kill, do not steal,
bear not false witness, do no fraud,
honor thy father and mother.' But
he answering, said to Him: 'Master
all these things I have observed
from my youth.' And Jesus looking
on him, loved him, and said to him:
'One thing is wanting unto thee:
Go, sell whatsoever thou hast, and
give to the poor, and thou shalt have
treasure in heaven; and come, fol-
low me.' Who being struck sad at
that saying, went away sorrowful;
for he had great possessions."

That this noble-hearted youth was
determined to follow Jesus, as the
Apostles had done, can not be
doubted. Unfortunately, he had not
been trained to deny himself; and
when our Lord demanded of him an
heroic act ofVenunciation, he failed
to heed the Master's call and, turn-
ing away sadly, left His company.
At the present day, our Divine
Savior gazes from His lowly prison
in the tabernacle upon the young
men and women as they gather to do
Him homage. He loves them, too,
most tenderly; and because He loves
them, He also invites them to leave
all and to follow Him into the soli-

tude of the cloister. But how many
heed Him not? They, too, are not
being trained to make the sacrifice
that this call demands. They are not
prepared to leave father, mother,
sister, and brother with all that the
world offers, and to hie themselves
to the monastery and to the convent.
Ask the monks and friars and broth-
ers and sisters and nuns whether
their houses of novitiate are over-
crowded with candidates, and you
will hear them all bewailing the
scarcity of religious vocations
among the youth of our land. Some
assign this reason, others that, but
there is only one reason: our young
people are not being properly edu-
cated to appreciate the exalted dig-
nity or the numerous advantages of
the religious state; they do not
learn that true happiness consists,
not in the complete satisfaction of
all their desires, but in the spirit
of renunciation for God's sake.
There is nothing nobler, nothing
more excellent than the sweet com-
pany of Jesus, the Son of God and
of Mary ever blessed; but this can
not be had without sacrifice: "If
any man will be My disciple, let him
deny himself."

We have every kind of college,
academy, and university where our
Catholic youth, after leaving the
primary schools, can prepare them-
selves in a more perfect manner for
the great battle of life. God, in His
wonderful providence, has likewise
given us a school where our boys
and girls can acquire the true spirit
of renunciation for Christ's sake, a
school which will not only fit them
in an eminent degree for the reli-
gious state, but will make them
eager even to embrace it. This
school is the Third Order of St.
Francis. Once we have secured our

young folk for the Third Order, the
entrance of a young man or a young
lady into the holy walls of the con-
vent will be a thing of common oc-
currence, for the Third Order is the
very nursery of religious vocations.
And how could it be otherwise!
The Third Order of St. Francis is a ■
true order and its members are
quasi religious living in the world.
The life of a Tertiary is hedged in,
as it were, on all sides by his pro-
tecting Rule, which wards off many
dangers and acts as a constant in-
centive to virtue and deeds of piety.
One of the first virtues held up for
the imitation of our youthful Ter-
tiary, is the spirit of renunciation
that attained such eminent heights
in the soul of our Father St. Fran-
cis. Our young Tertiary is taught
that the almighty dollar is not the
only or even the main source of true
happiness here below; and he is told
how St. Francis, who possessed gold
and silver in abundance, cast it .
from him and trod it under foot.
He is taught that clothes do not
make the man ; that many a noble
heart beats beneath the plain and
even homely garb of the laborer;
and he beholds his leader and hero,
the youthful, fashionable Francis,
doffing his shimmering silk mantle
and velvet jerkin and donning the
rough hairshirt and knotted cord of
penance. He is taught that in feast-
ing and wine there is much tribula-
tion for both body and soul ; that a
joyous, bright night is often fol-
lowed by a sad, gray morning; and
he beholds his model, the delicate
Francis, quitting the feasting halls
of his effeminate friends and joy-
fully sating himself with the dry
crusts cast to beggars. He is taught
that human love and the marriage
ties are not the highest goal of the

February, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

heart of man; that by eschewing
these, men, who are already "but
little less than the angels," rise su-
perior to the angelic hosts ; and he
beholds the lovable, knightly Fran-
cis spurning the hand of a worldly
bride to espouse with purest love his
Lady Poverty, — a union that ele-
vated his virginal soul to the
sublimest heights attained even by
the Seraphs of heaven.

Ah, my friends, brother priests,
fathers, mothers, — why have we not
long since led our boys and girls to
Francis that he might be their
teacher in the things that are of
God! Why have we
not long since made
them partakers of the
blessings that would
be theirs in abun-
dance as Tertiary
children of the Ser-
aphic Father! God
wills it, ay, God wills
it! Let us hesitate
no longer. Already,
in various places, the
ball has been set a-
rolling. The annual
reports of the frater-
nities tell of the
young men and ladies
who have exchanged
the Tertiary cord and
scapular for the full
religious habit of the
friar, the monk, the
brother, the sister,
the nun. Seminaries,
colleges, academies,
and other educational
institutions are finally awakening
to the call of Francis and are enroll-
ing their pupils under his Tertiary
banner. Let the good work continue ;
and where it has not yet begun, let
pastors and people arouse them-
selves at once. The welfare of the
Church depends to a great extent on
the number and the fervor of the
religious Orders, that are the
brightest jewels in her diadem.

The Third Order must, there-
fore, launch a real campaign to
secure recruits for its ranks from
among the youth of the land; and
then let it continue to nurture the
good seed sown in their hearts, by
frequently drawing their attention
to the beauty of the religious state,
where one finds Orders and Congre-
gations suited to every character

and disposition. Many a young
man, who feels no inclination at all
toward the holy priesthood, would
be an excellent lay brother; and God
knows how much the world stands
in need of such. And if one is not
called to the teaching Orders of
brothers, he will find abundant op-
portunities to exercise the trade or
profession behind monastery walls
that had been his in the world. For,
both the monasteries and the mis-
sions need nurses, cooks, porters,
carpenters, bakers, gardeners, paint-
ers, masons, tailors, sacristans, and
so on through the long list of trades

and professions. Similarly, the do-
mestic and the fine arts learned by
our growing girls in schools and
academies and above all in the
home, are in daily demand in every
convent of sisters throughout the
land.

When the Apostles found it im-
possible on account of their priestly
duties, to attend likewise to the ma-
terial needs of the faithful, they
appointed men and women as their
helpers to take charge of this por-
tion of the ministry. These men and
women of our day are the lay broth-
ers and the sisters who are con-
stantly at the side of the priest,
aiding him at every turn and sup-
plementing him in a thousand dif-
ferent ways. That their work is
most pleasing to our Savior is evi-

dent from the fact that, while He
devoted only the last three years of
His life to the priestly work His
Heavenly Father sent Him to per-
form, He spent the other thirty
years to the performance of the
so-called menial labors that fall to
the lot of the lay brother and sister.
Nor is even the manner in which
He did these things different from
theirs. These thirty years of Our
Lord's life are called His hidden
life, and is not the life of our broth-
ers and sisters a life hidden with
Christ in God, as St. Paul so beau-
tifully expresses it?

My friends, you
may say that I have
fallen out of my role
this month and have
preached a sermon
instead of chatting
with you. Well, I
plead guilty to the
charge; but I care
not so long as the
message I wish to
convey goes deeply
into your hearts as it
comes out of the very
depths of mine. Re-
ligious life in our day
and country is almost
taboo with the great
majority of our young
men and women, sim-
ply because they have
not learned to know
it and because the
gulf between it and
the world has become
too broad to be at-
tempted by many. Happily, there is
a bridge spanning this gulf. It is
the Third Order of St. Francis.
Just as I was writing these lines, I
received a letter from the superior
of a religious community urging me
to beg God to send them postulants,
since they can no longer fill the de-
mand made on them' for sisters.
Catholic schools, hospitals, orphan-
ages, and countless other institu-
tions under the care of the religious
Orders are storming Heaven with
the same petition. Therefore, let
us strain every effort to recruit
the ranks of the Tertiary children
of St. Francis, and the peopling of
our cloisters and convents will take
care of itself. Again I say, and
from all sides I seem to hear the
echo: "Our Youth for St. Francis!"

FRANCISCAN HERALD

February, 1922

ON BEING A MODERN CATHOLIC WOMAN

By Agnes Modesta

NOT long ago I attended a lec-
ture. It was one of those
"modern messages to mod-
ern women" that flourish these days
on our club rostrums, and shine out
from the pages of our women's mag-
azines. The delivery of this "mes-
sage" was easy and graceful; I
found myself looking with some fa-
vor upon the lecturer's modish hat;
but despite the esthetic thrill on
that point, I was moment by moment
more conscious of a sense of rest-
lessness, an insistent pricking of
acute annoyance. There was some-
thing cloyingly familiar about the
sounds that floated sweetly across
the heads of the audience. It was
as if I had suddenly become aware
of the disturbing nature of the tick-
ing of my mantelpiece clock.

"Now, to the modern woman — "
the speaker was saying, fixing us
purposefully with her eye — Ah, that
was it: "The modern woman." How
many times had I heard that par-
ticular combination of words in the
past four, three, or two months.

It strikes my eye, as I write it
now, with the wearisome expected-
ness of the cant phrase. And yet,
one is bound to admit that whether
we tire of the expression, as lan-
guage, or not; or whether or not we
should prefer to have her called
"the woman of today," the real vital
fiesh-and-blood woman is a genuine
factor in the affairs of the day.
There are so many classes of her,
so many heads under which she may
be catalogued — "The modern busi-
ness woman," "The modern home
woman," "The modern professional
woman." But here I find myself
veering into a corner as I realize
that these in themselves are but
subdivisions of sub-heads that may
accompany the title of the "modern
woman." And even with this
thought, there flashes before my
mental vision a picture of a type of
modern womanhood that possesses
by its very nature the secret of real
modernity, true womanliness; and
as I sit bolt up to examine this
picture more closely, it resolves

itself into the Ideal Modern Cath-
olic Woman.

"But, my dear, there is no such
thing as a modern Catholic woman,"
one of my ultra-modern acquain-
tances assured me airily not long
ago. "The Church is essentially
medieval, and you Catholic women
who adhere closely to your Church
are not in the least modern. You
have the viewpoint of the Dark
Ages. You are — forgive me — most
deliciously er — quaint."

"Essentially medieval!" This of
the Church, the mystical Bride of
the eternal Christ — of Her whose
feet are grounded in Eternity;
whose head is set serenely in Eter-
nity; and whose living members
function through all Time with the
glory of the ancient, the wisdom of
maturity, and the glowing strength
of youth! One instinctively recalls
an old saying that concerns the en-
trance of fools where angels fear to
tread, when one is confronted by
infantile minds, who, having re-
cently made the astounding discov-
ery of their "mental fingers and
toes," assert that "the Church is
essentially medieval," and that
"there is no such thing as a mod-
ern Catholic woman."

In justice to such as hold these
statements to be true. I am forced to
concede that Catholic women are
not wholly guiltless in the matter
of permitting a fallacy of this kind
to gain ground in the materialistic
present-day society. Serene in the
haven of the Creator's fair country,
we are apt to let slide the duty of
sharing the clear glow of our own
light with the many souls who are
groping dazedly through the shad-
ows in their attempt to find a gleam
of peace. Many of us are content
to let our sister moderns fondly be-
lieve that, if we show an ability to
cope with the problems of the day,
it is in spite of the Church rather
than because of it.

There is a certain stock phrase
which we are constantly meeting:
"I'm very broad — I see good in all
religions." It has even crept into

the jargon of some of our Catholic
modern sisters, though on their lips
it usually becomes, "Yes, I'm a
Catholic; but I'm very broad — I see.
good in all religions." "I am a Cath-
olic, but — " has of late edged its
way into the daily conversation of
some who would be shocked to hear
that they are denying their faith
as surely as were those who faltered
before the lash of persecution and
offered incense on the altars of the
pagan gods

A hard saying? Perhaps, but \
who can deny its truth? The truly
broad-minded Catholic woman says,
at least in effect:

"Broad — well, yes, perhaps I am.
You see, I am a Catholic ; and, hav-
ing behind me the Church which, as
it is universal in time as well as in ]
place and teachings, has seen the
rise and fall of so many nations and
systems of government and belief,
I can hardly help seeing things in a
clearer light than do those who
make no use of the wisdom that
Church has brought on down to the
present day for our benefit."

Staunchly Catholic, this woman
realizes that we are all children of
the same Infinite Father, and she
therefore loves all humanity for the
love of that Father; but she knows
that this love in no way implies an
admiration for the various conflict-
ing systems of belief which happen
to be in vogue. Nor does it place
upon her the obligation of following
those who admit no belief through
the mazes of skepticism. She is be-
yond such things; why should she
seek to retrograde? She naturally
wishes that every human being
should know the peace and security
of life in the warming brightness
of the Church which Christ himself
founded, and she will pray earnestly
ut omnes unum sint; but she will
not sit in judgment upon those who
have not found the shelter of the
Father's house. She will rather
try, by the perfume of her own life,
to let them know that there is a
place where dark places are made
light, and rough ways plain, and

A TRIP TO THE MOUTH OF THE YELLOW RIVER

By Fr. Odoric, O. F. M.

THOSE were happy days, in-
deed, that I spent, early in
the autumn of 1883, on my
first mission trip to the mouth of
Yellow River, where in the course
of time a goodly number were re-
ceived into the Church. My prede-
cessors in the Yellow River region
had been Father John Gafron, O.
F. M., and Father Casimir Vogt,
0. F. M. Both these zealous mis-
sionaries were obliged to discon-
tinue their work on the Yellow
River. The former was assigned by
his superiors to the territory along
the Flambeau and Chippewa Rivers.
Father John, however, had contract-
ed a severe case of asthma as a re-
sult of the hardships he underwent
in his labors for the Indians. Ac-
companied by two Indian guides
who carried the luggage needed for
long trips, he would cover on foot
a distance of five hundred miles. In
those days one could travel fifty
or more miles before reaching
a city or town. Not even an
old shack or any human hab-
itation would loom up to offer
some kind of shelter. Where then,
the reader may ask, would the mis-
sionary find lodging when night
overtook him? The answer is very
simple. He and his Indian guides
would pitch camp under the canopy
of the starry sky and feel quite
comfortable in their "hotel." The
Father's bed was easily made. Bal-
sam branches would be laid on the
snow or bare ground and then cov-
ered with a blanket. Either his
satchel or a bundle of spruce
branches or an armful of grass
would serve as pillow. Fatigue and
a good conscience would then soon
close his eyes, while the holy angels
at his rude bedside could be relied
ion for keeping the wolves and bears

No wonder that the good and
zealous Father John, who had the
spirit and talent of a true apostle
of the Indians, at length broke
down under the constant strain and
repeated exposures. Indeed, he
might have been just a little more
reasonable in this respect. Hard-
ships of this kind are bound to
wreck even the most robust consti-
tution and Father John's was never
exceptionally strong. But you see,
dear reader, when a person is in
the race for immortal souls, he is
very apt to forget all about himself;
and then, of course, he will have to
bear the consequences of his mis-
sionary zeal.

And who will blame him? When
the hunting season sets in, many
hunters are seen scouring our north-
ern forests for prey, chasing the
noble deer and other game. This
is fun and sport for them. They
do not mind fatigue, hunger and
exposure. They will trudge along
for many a mile, sit at their frugal
meals with perfect relish, and pass
the night in miserable shacks ex-
posed to the inclemency of the
weather. Now, the missionary, too,
is a hunter — a hunter after immor-
tal souls, and in pursuit of this
precious prey he cares not what
trials and hardships he must un-
dergo. So it was with Father John
— his zeal for the salvation of the
Indian knew no bounds; it carried
him to extremes, if it were possible
in this case, until disease and death
cut short his valuable missionary
career. And who, I repeat it, will
blame him?

After spending a few days with
the good people at the mouth of
Yellow River, I made a flying trip
to Yellow Lake, about twelve miles
westward. Here lived Mr. Thomas
Dunne, a noble Irishman from Still-
59

water, and a few Indian families.
My predecessors were wont to pay
these people a friendly visit now
and then; wherefore I felt it my
duty to do likewise. It was some
time since they had seen a priest,
and they might be in need of spirit-
ual help and consolation.

Accordingly, with some Indians
as escort, I set out on that memor-
able trip through the noiseless for-
est along the bank of the Yellow
River. It was a lonely and tedious
tramp through the jack pines of
Burnette County. The road was
very sandy and anything but
straight and smooth. At last, after
"hiking" a few hours, we arrived
at the home of Mr. Dunne. How
kindly he received us! We were as
welcome as the flowers in spring
after a cold and bleak winter.

The home of Thomas Dunne was
not a fashionable mansion sur-
rounded by gardens and lawns, but
just a plain little farmhouse hidden
away among the trees of the forest.
Some of the land near by had been
cleared for tilling and a number of
men found not only work but also a
pleasant home with the congenial
backwoodsman. The house lacked
the luxury of comfortable rocking-
chairs and soft settees. Only rough
benches durably made and set on
stout legs invited the wanderers to
take a rest. And a rest we took,
much-needed as it was, and with
great interest watched the little
dancer that Tom had taken in for
his own amusement and that of his
friends. What a pretty little dan-
cer it was. How gleefully he would
whirl around, stop short for a sec-
ond or two, and then resume his
dizzying dance. The name of the
little dancer? Why, yes, his name
was "Gray Squirrel," and the hall
he danced in was a spacious cage.

FRANCISCAN HERALD

February. 1SG2

Chapel at Mouth of Yellow River destroyed by fire, 1915.

would call on
them in their
wil d e r n e s s
home, which
happened only
a few times in
a twelvemonth,
then their joy
was indescrib-
a b 1 e. Mr.
Dunne espe-
cially was hap-
py on such oc-
casions and
would let noth-
ing blight the
serenity of his
big heart. Just
listen.

People in the backwoods have their Once, while Father Casimir was

own way of providing pleasure and staying there, he was obliged to

amusement, of making their humble visit some family out in the woods

home sweet and attractive. Inno- and, to get there faster, he asked

cent games, a pet rabbit or squirrel, his host for the use of his team and

stories told by "daddy" at the cozy buggy. Now you know, with a

fireside — to be sure, it takes very whole-hearted Irishman like Mr.

little to make a home attractive Dunne, a priest's wish is a com-

where the old-fashioned standards mand; to grant it he regards not

of living are still in vogue, un- as doing a good turn but as fulfill-

spoilt by the miasma of modern ex- ing an obligation ; and instead of

travagance. Mr. Dunne and his hired expecting thanks for the favor he

men were very happy in these far- does, he thanks the priest for hav-

off regions ; and when the priest ing asked him and not someone else.

So Father Casimir got Mr. Dunne's
team and buggy and was soon on
his errand of charity. How great
was the surprise of Tom, however,
when a short while after, his team
came plodding home with the mis-
sionary at their heels, but minus
the buggy. Quite nervously the
Father related the sad story — how
the buggy struck a tree stump in
the road and went to pieces — and
then declared himself willing to
accept whatever penance its owner
might impose. A broad smile was
the answer and a five-dollar gold
piece the penance that good Mr.
Dunne gave the troubled mission-
ary. It is true, neither the smile
nor the gold piece put the buggy
on its wheels again; but it reas-
sured the inexperienced teamster
and encouraged him to call again
on his kind-hearted friend when in
need of assistance. "God bless
Mr. Dunne!" is the prayer that
must have escaped Father Casimir's
lips then as they escape mine now.
The good and pious man departed
this life many years ago and Father
Casimir, too, like Father John, are
in the land of eternal bliss, enjoy-
ing the reward prepared for those
that love and serve God here on
earth.

it Francis Solaim© Mission Ass©eiafti©mi

A CHANCE FOR YOU

On the feast of the Holy Inno-
cents, December 28, just about a
year ago, the most beautiful church
among the Pima and Papago In-
dians, St. John's in Arizona, was
converted into a heap of burning
ruins. So rapidly did the flames
eat their way from sanctuary to
organ loft, that it was impossible
to save anything.

To prevent the flames from
spreading, the older Indian boys
formed a bucket brigade and under
the direction of the missionaries,
dashed water on the roofs and walls
of the adjoining buildings. It was
due to their efforts and to a favor-
able change in the wind, that none
of the other buildings were seri-
ously damaged.

The exterior of St. John's Mission Church with the Indians gathered around it
after holy Mass. They no longer have their lovely church, and they are too
poor to build it anew. Will you assist them — and the faithful Fathers who said,
when the fire had gutted it: "We accept this heavy cross from the hands of our
Heavenly Father. He directs all our ways. He knows how to draw good from
evil. Heaven will aid us to restore this church — to build even a larger one, so
that our many children may find shelter under its friendly mission roof." That
roof will cost $2,000.

February, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

erect an enduring monument of love.

These things can be done by the
small contributions of our many
readers. The children of the mis-
sion, and their relatives, need a
worthy House of God. They need
Him whom you have at every hour,
and they need Him so placed that
reverence will fill their hearts when
they kneel before Him.

God has been very good to us.
Shall we be good to others — for His
sake?

OUR BENEFACTORS

A CARD OF THANKS

Those of our readers who received a let-
ter from us around the Christmas holidays,
will recall the appeal we made to their
charity for the restoration of the ruined St.
John's Chapel, described in the Mission
Department of this issue. While many of
This is the interior of St John's Church at St. John's Indian Mission Arizona. them were vented b circumstances
Here we see our Indian brothers and sisters worshipping our Lord and Master. .. « • ., .

Yet on December 28, a year ago, this lovely church— the most beautiful mission from responding financially, they assured us
chapel among the Pima and Papago Indians — was converted into a heap of ruins, of their prayers and good wishes for the
These people — Catholic like ourselves — are without a decent place of worship, success of our appeal. For these we are
Last Sunday we went to Mass in our own parish church — perhaps knelt at the (j ee pi y g ra teful. Many others promised to
Communion rail — received the Blessed Sacrament. Are you grateful? Then , - . .

WW *; , T ,. 7 ' TV"". . , . . „•„ ti. u;„u send donations at a more convenient time,

help these poor, unhappy Indians to get their church m shape again. The high

altar will cost $1,000 and the two side altars $500 each. Also to these we extend our heartfelt

thanks in advance. Many others, finally.
It is for funds to rebuild this The pews cost $15 each — that is have remembered the Mission chapel with

mission chapel that we now appeal, a smaller sum if one has not the more or less substantial offerings. Upon
To ask for money is neither our greater. these we gratefully invoke the Christ

vocation nor our pleasure but in The Stations of the Cross cost Child's richest blessings. We wish we
this case it is our sacred duty. $100. The Communion railing $300. could have sent each and every one of them

What a source of joy and grati- There may be some one dear to a personal letter of acknowledgment, but
fication it would be to know that you to whom you would like to (Continued on page 91)

this ruined chapel has been re-
stored to God's little Indian
children through the charity of
the readers of the FRANCIS-
CAN HERALD. There are now
422 Indian children at this mis-
sion with no decent place to at-
tend Mass. To spiritually care
[for these children is a preroga-
ive, and to maintain each one
of them at school costs at least
$75.

This sum divided into twelve
offerings during the year would
not be very much over $6 a
month ; or $1.50 a week. There
are many people who would not
miss so small a sum.

To replace the statues de-
stroyed would cost from $25 to
$50 each. Have you had any
cause for thanksgiving during
the year? Perhaps you could
show it by donating a statue.

The girls' dormitory at St. John's Mission School. It is built of adobe blocks
made by the Indians themselves,

WHO WINS?

By Blanche Weitbreg

1UCAS slept off his feverish attack, and Geof-
frey found him trying to dress himself when
_J he cautiously opened the door at lunch time.

"Hello," he remarked. "I don't know about this!
You look a trifle wilted. Don't you think you'd better
go slow? What's wrong — ?" Lucas had staggered,
catching at him for support.

"It's — it's nothing, Geoffrey. I — "

"Lucas, what is it? See here, I'm afraid you really
are ill; I'll get you to bed again — " He slipped an
arm about the other, who leaned against him, pant-
ing.

"No — no, Geoffrey; it's nothing. It's only — "

"Only—?"

"My — my leg."

"Your — leg — ?"

"Yes ; I suppose the cold, or whatever it is, has
settled in it. I'm quite right otherwise."

Geoffrey stood silent. Lucas' pathetic effort at un-
concern, now that merciless Nature had driven him to
the wall, his pitiful attempt to bring casually into
the light the thing that he had been hiding so sav-
agely under layer upon layer of pride and stoicism —
It clutched at Geoffrey's heart.

"Suppose you go a little easy," he said, after a
strained moment. "Lie down a while longer. I'll
bring you in some lunch — "

"No; help me upstairs. I shall be quite right if I
move about. I'm stiff, that's all."

He made a gallant enough beginning, and reached
the foot of the stairs, holding to Geoffrey's arm, but
with the first step up he collapsed. Geoffrey, with
no further word, lifted him bodily, and turned to
carry him back to bed.

"Geoffrey, p-please! w-won't you take me to the
s-studio? I shall be quite right p-presently."

The little stammer was sufficient; much against
his better judgment, Geoffrey yielded.

"You promise me you won't try to get down without
me?" he stipulated, as he established Lucas on the
glass-porch, propped up with many pillows in a
steamer chair.

"But I t-tell you, I shall be quite all right in a 1-lit-
tle while — "

"You promise me?" insisted Geoffrey.

"Very well; I promise."

"Lucas, I wish you'd let me send for Kosaloff; he's

home today, I think. I'd like to have him see that
leg now, while it's bothering you. His specialty is
bones and joints, you know — "

His voice died out. Lucas, lying back on his pil-
lows, looked up at him with an expression which
chilled his blood. The dead pallor he had seen two
nights ago had spread over the swarthy skin, and
from the white mask the eyes gleamed, needles of ice.'

"No doctor is going to do anything to my leg,"
said Lucas, very softly. "And unless you let me
alone, I'll get out of your house."

A long, dragging silence fell. Geoffrey turned
away slowly. He stood looking over the water to-
ward the misty shape of the City, crouched by the
Gate. . . .

Of course, he was in the wrong. He should have
been more careful. Blundering ass! He should have
understood that there were some things not for his
understanding. Yet he went floundering in, and
making a mess of everything! Only — only, if Lucas
had not spoken quite like that —

No; he was wrong again. At least he would not be
guilty of disloyalty. Nothing that Lucas could say
mattered ! Nothing could make any difference.

"Gofredo — "

He wheeled about. Lucas was holding out a hand.

"Gofredo mio — "

"Yes," said Geoffrey, hastily. "Ah — there's Mrs.
Courtland, ringing for lunch. We'll have it out here'
together. Wait, I'll just help her carry it up — "

He gripped the slim brown fingers, and plunged
across the studio and down stairs like a charging
bull. Good Lord, anything but that! Anything but
that! He felt like a man who has profaned a shrine.
He had seen tears iii Lucas' eyes.

For the next day or two he watched the little Span-
iard furtively, filled with a gnawing anxiety, but!
Lucas succeeded in fighting down his troubles, and;
by the end of the week was evidently out of pain. Aj
line at the corner of his mouth that hurt Geoffrey
like a sword finally disappeared, and his laughter
began to sound less hollow. Early on Sunday, as
Geoffrey was making ready for holy mass, a rumpled
black head was popped in his door.

"Hello," he said. "What got you out? You look,
fit, at that."

Lucas hesitated. "I thought you were sick," he;

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FRANCISCAN HERALD

murmured. "I heard you up, at this ungodly hour — "
"It's Sunday."

"Oh!" A faint color crept up in Lucas' cheeks.
"Yes, so it is."

"You — you'd better not try to go, though, Lucas.
I think—"

"No," retorted Lucas, with a queer little smile.
"I won't go."

Geoffrey walked down to the boat landing, frown-
ing; but by the time the steamer docked at Sausalito
the salt air had blown his mood away. He climbed
the hill to the church humming an old French nursery
rhyme that he and Lucas had sung, once, on a moon-
light night, on a blossoming terrace in Rio.
"0 clair-de-la-lune,
Mon ami Pierrot,
Prete-moi ta plume
Pour ecrire un mot!"
Lucas had played, on a sawed-off guitar that he
had picked up in some junk-shop. It was frightfully
out of temper, and Lucas had made frantic efforts
at conciliation; but the concert had ended in a jangle
of broken strings.

"Ma chandelle est morte,
Je n'ai plus de feu!
Ouvre-moi ta porte,
Pour l'amour de Dieu!"
He laughed to himself, as the happy echo of Lucas'
hlaughter wafted across his memory. Ah, those nights
i|under the Southern Cross! And what a comrade
JJLucas was. He had always laughed, even through
the Brazil days —

He found himself frowning again. Yes, Lucas
still laughed, but not like that! Not like that!
"Ma chandelle est morte,
Je n'ai plus de feu — "
Was it that the candle was dead and the fire gone?
He went in to holy mass, drearily tramping the tread-
mill of unanswered questionings.

Dr. Kosaloff, these times, was in and out of the
louse with more than his customary frequency. He
seemed to have taken a tremendous fancy to Lucas;
md, as he never appeared in anything resembling a
professional light, Geoffrey was rejoiced to find that
Lucas, after a barricaded fortnight, began to venture
)ut into the open. Geoffrey's mistaken zeal about the
ame leg had given the much-to-be-desired friendship
a. bad set-back, but that was cured now, he decided;
and Kosaloff could even look at Lucas over his eye-
glasses without making the poor chap stiffen. Yes;
it was obviously no good to force things — one must
iust let them work out.

The three of them, on the doctor's free days, when
the big City Hospital had no claims upon him,
;ramped together about the island, or on the Tiburon
hills, or in the valley that is the gateway to the Hol-
low Land of the Giants. It was the doctor who man-
aged matters so that Lucas did not too dangerously
>vertax his strength, and Geoffrey, with this burden
)f anxiety lightened, could throw himself whole-
heartedly into the hours of pleasure.

"Bless the old Pagan," was Geoffrey's emotion,
whenever Kosaloff, by some clever bit of diplomacy,
succeeded in wafting Lucas gently away from
trouble.

"Bless the old Pagan brute! He's a Christian, if
you could peel his shell off!"

Lucas loved the hill tops and the hillside roads.
The beauty of the woods, especially the menacing
grandeur of the sequoias, seemed, if anything, dis-
tasteful to him. "I've seen woods enough," he said,
one afternoon, as they sat on a fallen log, consuming
hard-boiled eggs and hot tea from the doctor's ther-
mos bottle, which, Geoffrey averred, was like the
perpetually full pitcher of Greek lore. "I don't like
woods. They don't let you breathe."

"Yes," remarked Geoffrey, throwing back his head
to stare through crowding naked trunks up to the
feathery green of branches tossing in the sun a
hundred feet above them. "Yes, but these big beg-
gars don't smother you like jungles I have met. That
beastly place below Kaiteur Falls, with the darned
grass tying up your ankles, and your face scratched
by the boughs, and the air so wet you needed a pair
of gills to take care of it!"

"M-mm," acquiesced Lucas. "Yes, at least these
chaps have the grace to keep their hands to them-
selves; and they stand straight. The laurels, though
— look at them! They're caught, down here in the
hollow, and they can't run for it. They double and
squirm and twist themselves, but the old fellows
above there never notice. They just let 'em wriggle."
He sprang up suddenly, and strolled off to the edge
of the singing stream. Geoffrey looked after him.
Why must he always read a double meaning in Lucas'
words? It was just a poetic fancy, about the strug-
gling laurels. He turned from the slim figure and
the bent black head, and encountered Kosaloff's eyes.
"Let him be," said Kosaloff, below his breath. It's
his battle. Let him fight it out."

"I — I don't know what you mean," responded Geof-
frey, resentfully. What did Kosaloff understand
that was beyond him, Geoffrey, Lucas' "alter ego?"
He was foolish enough to let it annoy him for sev-
eral days.

One night he had a strange dream. He was wan-
dering about in a dimly lighted place, searching for
some one. There was unrest upon him, and alarm
plucked at his soul. Ah — Lucas, that was it; he was
hunting Lucas. He must be close by, for surely he
had heard him calling a moment ago. There was
need of haste, too; but it was so dark, and there were
so many stairs to climb — endless stairs! That was
what came of living on the side of a mountain — one
had so many stairs to climb — always stairs to climb.
It was difficult to get up and down so many stairs
when one's leg was hurting. No, it was Lucas who
suffered such pain — pain like a red-hot knife. Well,
he would be willing to bear Lucas' pain, if — but he
must find Lucas — he must find Lucas at once; there
was no time to lose!

He saw something lying at his feet, in the dimness;
a shape, vague and shadowy, with outstretched arms,

FRANCISCAN HERALD

February, 1922

like a crucifix. It was a crucifix; but — good God!
It was moving — it was alive! A great black cross,
with a pale form fastened upon it — and what could
that be, stretched beside it, lying close to it? Lucas — ?
Was that Lucas, lying so, with his head against the
bleeding heart? The nailed hands of the crucified
figure were straining at their bonds, and Geoffrey
saw the left one loosen itself, and the left arm fold
slowly about Lucas; the right, released also, clasped
the slim body; the thorn-crowned head turned, the
half-open lips curved in a smile. Geoffrey heard a
voice speaking somewhere — heard soft words, re-
peated over and over, like a chant.

"His left hand — His left hand is under my head — "
Surely he knew those words — Like a chant, over
and over — ah, how beautiful it was!

"His left hand is under my head,

And His right hand doth embrace me — "

Oddly enough, far from comforting, as he felt that
it should, this curious adventure in the realms of
sleep caused Geoffrey much uneasiness. What could
it mean? Was it a message of hope, or of warning?
Or had his own desires and fears for Lucas fused
themselves into this fanciful picture? Lucas in the
arms of Christ! Lucas, who seemed to have turned
his back upon his God! Geoffrey tried to believe
that it meant nothing; yet for weeks afterward he
could not look at Lucas without something akin to
terror.

The fall arrived, bringing days crowded full of
work. Geoffrey was busy with a frieze for the dec-
oration of a millionaire's library, and the studio was
plastered from end to end with canvases, sketches in
charcoal, stencils, and the like. Lucas, who was
writing a series of articles on South America for
one of the city papers, occupied a corner of the glass-
porch within view of Geoffrey's easel, and Geoffrey
would often look up from his painting to find the
Spaniard's eyes fixed on him dreamily, brightening
into a smile as their glances met. Lucas was feeling
better, lately, Geoffrey thought. He looked better,
too. He had gained in weight, his color was clearer,
his expression happier. The lame leg was giving him
no trouble, as far as Geoffrey could make out, and he
appeared to be enjoying life in a quiet fashion. Geof-
frey began to feel more secure about him. He might
be brought to a normal, rational viewpoint through
the prosaic road of improved health, and then — then
would come Kosaloff's opportunity. Ah, if Lucas
were not so difficult; if he could realize just a little
all that Geoffrey had hoped and prayed for!

"I'm going for the mail," said Lucas, one morning,
looking into the studio where Geoffrey was deep in
a struggle with an unsatisfactory piece of composi-
tion. "Knock off and come along."

"Where have you been?" demanded Geoffrey, glanc-
ing over his shoulder. "You haven't done a tap since
breakfast."

"Haven't I? Please understand that I want a job
as assistant gardner; I've been weeding the fernery."

"Weeding! You are coming on!"

"And now I'm going to walk down for the mail.;
Come along."

Geoffrey shook his head. "Can't," he said. "This'
thing's driving me frantic."

"Let it alone for an hour or two, and it will right
itself. Such a day, Geoffrey! Look at the sunshine!
And that sky!"

"Sorry, dear boy."

"Saints above! What adamantine virtue! Well,
I'm off."

"Get a sweater, Lucas. There's a sharpish
breeze."

Lucas made a grimace. "Lord, Geoffrey! You're
a regular old maid. I might as well be in jail — "

"You — get — your — sweater," commanded Geoffrey,
punctuating his words by raps of his paint brush.
"Do you want another chill? The wind's coming up,
I tell you."

"Oh, all right. Hang you, you're worse than a
wife! Where'd I leave the thing? Downstairs, I
suppose. I'll take yours."

"I think mine's in the dining-room."

"I was going around by the drive. Are you going
to make me travel downstairs just to satisfy your
silly — "

"I'll get it for you." Geoffrey laid down his palette.

"Get nothing! What rubbish!" An expression of
annoyance crossed the dark face, and Geoffrey bit his
lip. Living with Lucas was like treading among
eggs.

He heard the lower door slam, presently, and heard
Lucas on the stairs that led to the lane.

"Took the short-cut after all," he thought. "I'd
rather he'd gone by the drive. It's so steep; and
there's a loose step, too. I hope he'll be careful. I
forgot about that step. It ought to be fixed." He
surveyed his painting critically, head on one side.
No; it wouldn't do. The composition was wrong
somewhere —

What was that? Did someone scream? Mrs. Court-
land was calling him.

He sprang to the studio door, and into the hall, to
the top of the stairs.

"Mr. Lee! Mr. Lee!"

"Yes — yes! I'm up here. What — "

"Mr. Lee, come down! Come quick! He's
hurt! Oh, he's killed — " The voice broke off in
hysterical sobs.

Geoffrey dashed down the stairs. "Who — what —
what hap — "

"I saw him — I saw him from the window! Oh, I
know he's killed!"

Flinging himself at the door, Geoffrey tore it open
and paused on the porch landing, dazed. At the foot
of the steps he saw a huddled mass, inert, motion-
less. The green world swung whirling before him;
when he came to his senses he was climbing the steps
with Lucas in his arms.

Stairs — endless stairs — always stairs to climb!

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The black head hanging limp, the awful dead weight,
the ghastly face— oh, God, look at this pitiful thing!

He brushed past the sobbing housekeeper with half
seeing eyes, and laid the unconscious man on his bed.
There was a discolored spot on Lucas' left temple,
but no sign of blood.

"Mrs. Courtland," said Geoffrey, curtly, "stop that
racket, please, and go call Dr. Kosaloff. Call his
house ; he may not have left for the city yet. If he's
gone, call the hospital and I'll talk to them. Hurry
— don't stand there and howl!"

"Oh, Mr. Lee, is he — "

"I don't know! For God's sake, get out!"

He slammed the door in the woman's face, and
turned back to Lucas. Mechanically he set to work
to undress him, bungling everything, fingers slip-
ping, tangling shoe-laces and tearing buttonholes ;
and through it all no sign or movement from the still
figure. After what seemed an interminable time, he
got Lucas into bed, and, kneeling beside him, tried
to compose himself and listen for any sound of heart-
beats; but he could hear nothing except the pounding
of his own pulses.

Mrs. Courtland was at the door.

"The doctor's coming right over, Mr. Lee. Is there
anything — "

Geoffrey got to his feet. He was behaving like a
brute, but — no, he wouldn't have her in. He un-
locked the door, opening a crack. "Get the flask off
my table," he snapped. "Get an extra blanket — "

"The doctor says he'll be right over — "

"I heard you. Get that blanket, will you?"

Kosaloff came. He shot one glance at Geoffrey, and
pointed to a chair.

"Sit down," he ordered. "Sit down, and don't make
an ass of yourself."

Geoffrey watched, as the stethescope was applied,
but the impassive face told him nothing. After a
moment, Kosaloff looked up and nodded.

"He's lucky — or unlucky; it's all in the point of
view. Yes, he's alive. Now come around here and
help me."

The afternoon was half spent before Lucas showed
signs of returning consciousness. Kosaloff sat, his
hand on the slim brown wrist, his jaw grim. When
at last the head on the pillow stirred, his mouth
twitched a bit, but that was all.

The black lashes fluttered and lifted. Geoffrey,
on the opposite side of the bed, leaned closer.

"Speak to him," rumbled Kosaloff.

"Lucas," said Geoffrey.

The too expressive eyebrows took on a heart-break-
ing line; the gray eyes closed again. Geoffrey
glanced up at the doctor.

"Rouse him," directed Kosaloff. "He'll answer to
your voice. He's in pain, and we must find out what
we can, as quickly as possible."

Geoffrey laid a hand on the damp forehead.
"Lucas," he repeated. The sound of his voice seemed,

indeed, to recall the wandering man ; the gray eyes
opened a second time. They met Geoffrey's, and a
fleeting smile touched the white lips.

"Geoffrey — " The eyes strayed vacantly, and en-
countered Kosaloff's. Th'e sensitive brows took on
perplexity — surprise — then knotted in a frown. The
brown fingers moved in an effort to release them-
selves from the doctor's.

"What are you doing, Geoffrey ?"

"There, son," soothed Kosaloff, holding the fingers
in his great hand. "You needn't fight ; I'm not going
to eat you. Open your mouth, now, and take this."

"What's the matter?" demanded Lucas. "What's
happened?"

"You had a fall, and you've been knocked out. Take
this. That's right. Close the window, Geoffrey."

"Fall—? Oh— am I hurt—?"

"That's what we're going to find out."

Geoffrey turned from the window. Kosaloff drew
back the bedclothes; and Geoffrey halted, behind
him, staring at Lucas. He had seen a wounded pan-
ther at bay look like that.

"Let me alone," said Lucas, in a voice scarcely
audible. "Let me alone — "

Surely Kosaloff must see — what was he trying to
do—?

"Let me alone — " gasped Lucas again, pushing
feebly at the relentless fingers. "Let me alone — I'm
not hurt — Ah!"

The cry was choked back savagely. Geoffrey shut
his eyes; and looked again, to see Lucas, panting and
livid, still struggling.

"I thought so," remarked Kosaloff coolly. "Badly
damaged. Weak spot, you see; and the ligaments got
it for fair. Get around there, Geoffrey, and hold his
hands.

Oh, it was not fear of the pain! Geoffrey knew
that. Lucas was not afraid of pain. The feel of the
slender wrists that were twisting in his grip sickened
him. He sat with averted head, doggedlf obedient
to orders.

"He'd better stay as he is for a few hours," said
Kosaloff, at last. "Shock, you know; he must have
rest. Later on we'll see — "

He took a hypodermic needle from the magical bag
beside him on the table, and bent over Lucas once
more. Lucas shrank away, his eyes glittering like a
cat's.

"Will you let me alone?" The words came be-
tween clenched teeth. "I won't have it — I won't have
the stuff! It's my own body, isn't it? My own body!
Nothing can change that ! Let me alone, I tell you — "

Kosaloff inserted the needle deftly. "That's all,"
he said, with a little smile. "Sheathe your claws, and
go to sleep. "He put a hand over the angry eyes,
closing them. Lucas relaxed suddenly, trembling.

"Get away — " he whispered. "Get away from me!
You — you're too strong. You're like — like God!"
(To be continued)

F R ANC1SCAN HERALD

February, l'JJJ

RESTING COMFORTABLY

By Will W. Whalen

"A J

LL patients resting comfortably."

That was the report of the night nurse to
the presiding sister, as they soft-stepped
along the corridors of St. Agnes' Hospital. Outside,
the busy Broad Street sped its business and pleasure
before this house of pain; and overhead, the April
stars glanced down in silver pity at the roof. In the
little private ward of four beds, which the night
nurse had just left, there wasn't a sound but the
breathing of the quartette of sick women, recovering
from their recent operations. Only the clang of the
in-rushing ambulance disturbed the stillness.

The nurse spoke of the bodies. She knew nothing
of the souls. So thought one of the sufferers bitterly.

"Resting comfortably!"

There was a bitter smile on the face of the patient
nearest the long French window, a smile which the
soft darkness veiled.

Through the stillness stole the powerful sweetness
of a tiny bunch of arbutus from the bed table of a
sleeping girl. Every other day into this little ward
came a bunch of those blossoms, waxy and pure, from
their mossy hillsides, sent by her loving brother,
who went forth himself to cull the hidden treasures.

The patient, a girl with wonderful hair, she who
smiled so bitterly, when the nurse reported just out-
side the open door, "Resting comfortably," this pa-
tient lay with her face turned toward the flowers,
eagerly drawing in the perfume.

In the distant mountains, a farm lad sat beside a
smoky lamp, and read a letter from the hospital ward.
He had been busy in the fields all day, but he read
his little sick sister's letter again.

"My arbutus is dying, and I feel as though some-
thing I love is slipping away from me. The nurses
come every morning to smell them. So if you could
get me another little bunch, I wouldn't feel so far
away from nature and home. They do so speak of
the times we used to have hunting them on the hills.

"Lovingly, ROSALIE."

Poor Rosalie! Laurence wondered if after all she
had grown to love the city so well as her letters made
them believe.

She had been working in an office; and he suspected
that if she had been on the farm, her trip to the hos-
pital would have been unnecessary. Poor little bit
of waxy arbutus from the Blue Ridge Mountains,
wasn't she fading and perhaps dying in the big city
that had so little room for flowers !

The morning came, as all mornings do, no matter
how long and painful the night. Only, this morning
had a youthful, sweet spring smile, as if apologizing
for being so very late in coming. Rosalie found her
little bunch of flowers on the table, and then the

nurse came in with another small match box, stamped
and parcel posted, containing a fresh cluster.

"Laurence is always so good," exclaimed Rosalie,
burying her nose in the newest arrivals. "I can see
him gathering these at dawn."

A post card came, begging pardon for the smallness
of the bunch: "The flowers are so hard to find when:
you ain't along."

"May I have that old bunch?" asked the girl in 1
the bed nearest the window. "I love them so."

She winked hard, as if she were trying to keepi
back tears; and Rosalie hastened to assure her that:
she certainly should have that little cluster, regret-
ting that they weren't very fresh. Rosalie had only
begun to recover sufficiently from her illness to no-
tice how very beautiful the other girl was.

"I'm so glad," said Rosalie, "I got a fresh lot today, .
the 11th of April."

"Why the 11th?" asked the stranger, nursing her
flowers, with the crisp little dead leaves and the
waxy stars, sweet even in their dying.

"Because it's the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows;
and at home I always made it a point to get to the
church to lay a small bunch of Our Lady's flowers
on her shrine that day."

"How interesting!" said the other girl, nipping her
lips and winking hard again, as if trying to keep •
back tears. "Tell me about that feast of sorrows."

"I believe," said Rosalie, "that Mary, the mother
of Christ, felt very keenly all the agonies she saw
inflicted on her Son, and the Church has this feast
to bring back to mind His suffering and hers. I
know He tells His mother of my floral offering! You
see, I weave them into a wreath to commemorate His
crown of thorns; and then I lay them before His
pure mother, and ask her prayers for some foolish
girl who found her way to sin and lost her virtue."

The withered little bunch of flowers slipped from
the fingers of the girl nearest the window. Shel
turned away to hide the tears that nipping the lips!
and winking the lids wouldn't keep back any longer.
Rosalie thought she was merely tired, and didn'ti
look at her further.

The superior sister came in just then, and wasl
lavish in her praise of Rosalie's May flowers.

"Bold little things, daring bits of modesty," she!
said, looking at them as one would at a child. "They
come in chilly April, not fearing the possible frosts,
so long as they make the world sweeter."

Rosalie gave them a lingering look, and then
passed the flowers to the nun.

"Mother, I want you to put them on Our Lady's
altar — for some other girl's intention."

The patient nearest the window sank her teeth into
the counterpane to keep back a moan.

February, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

"Some girl who needs help — in soul."

The flowers were gone. A long hour after, the
patient at the window turned to Rosalie.

"I ought to give you back your little buds and
blossoms," she said, "since you sent the new ones
away. I'm sure you're lonely without them."

"Not a bit," said Rosalie, "and I want you to have
yours. They're good neighbors, those arbutus, for
they send some of their perfume over here."

"My grandmother lived in the mountains," replied
the stranger, "and she and I used to gather May
flowers — oh, so long ago."

"You don't look very old," said Rosalie.

"I'm not. But it seems a long time since I gathered
anything so sweet as arbutus. Grandmother used
to say that everywhere Our Lady trod, the May flow-
ers would grow, forgetting, dear old soul, that Our
Lady wasn't a century runner."

Suddenly the voice got harsh and aged and dis-
agreeable. It was as of another person altogether, a
ribald, profane, irreverent voice.

Rosalie replied very cautiously and gently.

"Your grandmother most likely meant Our Lady's
influence; for she knew, of course, Our Lady didn't
visit the grand old hills of Pennsylvania, for ex-
ample. And everybody honors the gentle Lily of
Israel who brought the Messiah to the world. What
does the Bible say about a rod coming out of Jesse,
and a flower rising up out of her root?"

"It's such a pity that flowers die," returned the
girl, whom by this time Rosalie knew as Florence.

"Everything dies," said Rosalie.

Incautious words — how she wished to recall them.
In a hospital, one should never speak of death to sick
girls, particularly girls so nervous as this odd pa-
tient.

"Poor grandmother died," replied Florence sadly,
"leaving me all her money, and making me a target
for any schemer. Better if she could have left me
her love in this lonely, loveless world."

"Other folks will love you, Florence," returned
Rosalie consolingly, "and make up for her loss, if
you let them. And it isn't so hard to die when one's
old, I fancy."

"It's hard for the old to die when they're leaving
some one that's young," said Florence, with more of
confession in her tone than she realized.

"That's true," answered Rosalie, whom that note
of confession skipped. "The old know that life
doesn't keep its promises, and they hate to see the
young feeding on false hopes."

"Neither do men keep their promises," said Flor-
ence, with still more confession in her tone, "and
the young and foolish they feed on lies."

Rosalie paused, hardly knowing what to make of
this girl who spoke so bitterly. She cautiously dis-
agreed.

"I think men do keep their promises, and I know
all men don't lie."

"I hope you'll always feel that way," concluded
Florence.

"I wisht youse girls would talk about things good
to eat instead of flowers and Christians' religion,"
complained the thin Jewess in the bed at the end of
the room. "Oh, if I only was back to get some hcme-
cooking! Christian cooks ain't no good."

The nurse took Florence's temperature, and for-
bade her to speak any further; it was not doing her
any good. Rosalie was so sorry that she almost cried
—an easy thing for her to do in these days of nerv-
ousness. When the nurse was gone, Florence man-
aged to scare up a smile some place, and flashed it on
the repentant Rosalie.

"Don't blame yourself," she whispered. "I did
it myself. I don't deserve your flowers, and then get
you blamed for talking too much to me."

"I'm thinking of my other flowers up-stairs in the
chapel," whispered back Rosalie. "They're there be-
fore Our Lady's shrine pleading beautifully for some
foolish girl."

"I can almost hear them," said Florence, in a note
of joy that made Rosalie wonder.

Then both drifted off into dreams— dreams of far
away mountains, with gentle breezes bringing clews
to the hiding places of May flowers. Two boys gave
Rosalie bouquets in her. dream, one her brother, the
other that handsome lad with whom she had a hasty
quarrel and then went to the city. Florence in her
dream saw a man trampling among her flowers with
rude, savage feet, and she tossed to and fro till ex-
haustion saved her from his memory.

Both girls were discharged the same day. Rosalie
hated to part with Florence, of whom she had be-
come very fond; but she realized that Florence was
wealthy, and had taken the private ward only for
company's sake. Her extraordinarily large tips to
the mrses and everybody else showed she had plenty
of money.

"Have you a home to go to?" asked Rosalie.

"No."

"Any place in particular to visit?"

"None."

"You could come with me?" — in delight.

"If you really wanted me."

"I do!"

Then Laurence arrived at the hospital with another
wee bunch of arbutus. He was quite embarrassed,
when he found two girls to meet him instead of one.
He managed to whisper to Rosalie that Fred Irvin
wanted to come along, but got cold feet at the last
minute and backed out, such cold feet, Laurence
averred, that he was sure the toes were frostbitten.
It was a treat for Laurence to have Rosalie back
with him on the train. But he enjoyed the ride all
the more because Florence was with her.

To Florence the mountains were health-inspiring,
very soothing, and so, too, to Rosalie. Both girls had
had enough of the city, with its dust and distractions
and dissipations, though Florence knew far more of
the last than did Rosalie. Rosalie's knowledge was
like a graphaphone record — a mere echo of the chat-
ter of the other girls in the offices.

FRANCISCAN HERALD

February, 1922

Fred Irvin made up for lost time and neglected op-
portunities, and proposed to Rosalie on the spot.
Laurence chanced on her and him in a hammock; and
he told his mother that Rosalie's head was against
a brawny shoulder, and from all appearances, their
patient was "resting comfortably."

Florence laughed heartily at this sally, and then
she went out to feed the chickens. Laurence followed
her in a Fred Irvin mood, after he and his mother
had had a heart-to-heart conference. Without diffi-
culty he persuaded Florence to go mountaineering
with him. The honeysuckle was blooming now, and
the air was very fragrant.

As usual, Florence carried her ridiculous little reti-
cule that seemed to hold so much. Off the road they
went to where Laurence knew there was plenty of
cut timber, and where there were seats to spare.

Here he asked her to marry him. The memory of
her old mistake stirred and came up again out of the
valley of the past, a ghost that would never be laid.
She didn't answer, but fingered in her hand-bag. Ha
wondered if she kept her heart in that, for there's
where she seemed to have everything else, in that bit
of meshed silk and beads. She drew out a faded
bunch of arbutus.

"Your sister Rosalie gave me these when we were
running mates in the hospital," she said, "and I beat
her in the race of temperature and temperament that
day. They brought back such awful memories. Lau-
rence, listen! All girls, at some time in their lives,
are like these flowers when first you sent them to
Rosalie. Some girls remain so all through girlhood,
fair, lovely, innocent. Others become like the faded
ones I have here in my hand, withered by a hot, lying
breath. I am like these," and bitterly she crushed
them into bits.

Then she told him all, of her one big blunder, of
the man she trusted as women so often trust, and
of his riding away with her scalp at his girdle. Her
voice was low and full, the echo of a heavy heart.

Laurence was thinking of an old book of poems —
disagreeable poems, many of them. He had found
the book and memorized some of its content, of
course, all without the knowledge of his good parents.
One of the poems came back to him now:

"O, follow, follow me!" cried Love, as in the jasper skies
The morning pearled, and made the world a perfect Para-
dise.

And the yellow-winged canaries in the oleanders sung,
And life was like a fairy-tale, and all the world was young.
And on and on she followed, till they came unto a land
Where a river clanged forever through a wild, weird waste

of sand —
Through the rushes clanged forever, and the blinding sun-
light shone
On a serpent, coiled and hissing, by a ruined altar-stone.

And a skeleton reels foi-ward; there is cypress on its brow
And a ring upon its finger; and it cries: "As I am now
Will you be, O poor lost maiden! for you followed Love

away;
For you followed Love who leadeth hither only to betray."

The ugly book did Laurence some good now. It
aroused pity in him for Florence, a great pity that
welled over and baptized his love for her, pouring oil
into the wound in his own pure heart. Never having
done wrong himself, he was only the more merciful
judge to her. The severest judge on his neighbor is
always the man who loudest cries "Patience!" re-
garding his own misdeeds. Laurence kept very still
as this girl let him look into her soul.

She thought he was judging her, as only a good
man can judge a frail woman; and she stumbled on,
hiding nothing, showing the old scars of her battle
and her defeat — on to the bitter end. Then he should
know all; tomorrow she'd start off into the world
again, what was left of her, to take up what was left
of life — away from the protection of those glorious
old mountains, away from the simple souls who dwelt
here, happy, peaceful and innocent.

"It was at a summer resort, and I hardly knew how
to spend my money fast enough. A handsome man
at least twice my age flirted with me. I started the
trouble myself by not making my eyes behave, so I
can't blame him for the beginning. We became lovers
of a sort, and then he told me with tears in his eyes
that he was married, but not living with his wife, a
woman who never understood and simply didn't try
to understand him. The girl," she continued bitterly,
"who listens to that yarn about wives not appreciat-
ing is the biggest fool on God's green earth. I hon-
estly don't think that man cared the snap of his
well manicured finger about me. I was too milk-and-
watery for his tastes. My money, of course, was
quite acceptable. I can't say how much he borrowed
with plausible stories of checks that hadn't arrived
in time.

"All the while he was using me to obtain a divorce
from his wife. He wrote me letters incriminating;
did them on the type machine; and left the carbon
copies where his wife would discover them. The
upshot of it all came when I was dragged into the
divorce courts; made a co-respondent; given enough
newspaper notoriety to last me for the rest of my
life; laughed and booed at; and all the while I was
innocent, that is, I really never let that man make
love to me, after I knew he had a wife. But, you see,
I trifled with danger; I'd been seen with him too
often, for I enjoyed his brilliant powers of conversa-
tion.

"After the divorce, he wrote me a curt note, and
next day married a brazen girl who sold tickets in
a moving picture booth. Her face was saved, while
my life was blasted. No one will believe I wasn't
guilty to the soul, least of all the wife who sneered
into my eyes when I left the court room. There, now,
Laurence, you see the woman you want to marry —
one whose name figured publicly in a vile divorce
case."

She paused and fumbled in her bag again.

"What became of — him?" was Laurence's question.

"He tired of his second wife very soon. She sought
me out and told me how cruel he had been to her.
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MEMORY'S GARDENS

I SHOULD think there are very few
among us for whom gardens have
no charm. To begin with, they are
connected with our earliest thoughts
about religion, when we listened, won-
dering, to the old old story — wonder-
ing, yet with that "simple, soul-re-
posing, glad belief in everything," which
is one of the happiest prerogatives of
a happy childhood, — and heard of our
first parents, and their fair eastern gar-
den whence their own sin cast them
forth.

And, as the years go on, we, too,
make Edens of our own — enchanted
grounds — from which, perchance, the
Angel of Destiny drives us with a
gleaming sword. Sometimes we our-
selves open the gates of our earthly
paradise, and set our faces towards
the wilderness.

Those who have been called out of
the darkness of heresy or scepticism in-
to the glorious light of the true faith,
know what it means to voluntarily — for
God's sake and conscience sake — leave
their own people and their father's
house, willingly exiles from the land
of home; martyrs, too, in heart, they
look backward — not with Regret, but
with an uncontrollable anguish, be-
cause this going only too often proves a
life-long separation. Truly the poet
sings:

Space may keep friends apart,
Death has a mighty thrall;

There is another gulf
Harder to cross than all.
no division being so great — no waters
so wide or so impassable — as difference
I of religion.

Duty is another Angel who frequent-
ly drives us from our own particular
paradise; and yet another, is the radiant
Angel of the religious vocation, who
! urges us — sometimes it might almost
'seem against our will — to sever the
sweet ties of kindred and of friendship
and to pass out into the desolate wilder-
ness of penance. And, at his word, we
go, leaving behind us our best beloved,
whilst through teardimmed eyes we see :

By Marian Nesbitt

As 't were the gates of Eden Closing
o'er

To hide them from our sight for ever-
more !

If we turn the pages of Holy Scrip-
ture, we find a surprising number of ref-
erences to gardens, not the least beauti-
ful being those which we associate in
our minds with our Mother Immaculate
— the "Garden Enclosed"; — but I should
think perhaps that the one above all
others which most frequently recurs to
our minds is the Garden of the Agony
— Gethsemane — whose ancient olive
trees witnessed the awful mental tor-
ture of our Redeemer and our God.

We, too, have our gardens of sorrow
as well as our gardens of joy — places,
lovely enough in themselves, but for-
ever dreadful to us, because of certain
moments spent therein. A day dawns
— not perchance in gloom and storm,
with lowering skies and dreary winter
rain; but a day where the sun shone
brightly, the south wind whispered soft-
ly in the pine trees, the rhododendrons
bordered the winding paths of silvery
sand like giant bouquets of flame color,
crimson and palest gold.

But, "ah! how cruel unchanging na-
ture looked to a heart that had been
changed to its own despite." Have we
not most of us felt a strange, stinging
sense of hurt surprise to find the flowers
still blooming at our side, when Winter
filled our souls? Do not pain, parting,
and absence — whether we believe our-
selves to have prepared for them or not
— always seem to come with such ap-
palling suddenness?

One moment bird and brook go warb-
ling on; then the wind sighs again, and
joy is gone! The gate is closed and the
hand that closed it, took all our happi-
ness with it, leaving us behind alone, in
our Garden of Gethsemane!

"0 call back yesterday — Bid Time re-
turn!" exclaims one of the greatest
poets and cleverest students of human
nature the world has ever known, and it
is the cry oftenest on our own lips; but
what "has been," can seldom, if ever,

be quite the same again — not, at least,
in full perfection. It is inevitable; and,
sooner or later, we find ourselves com-
pelled to recognize the fact.

Well, however, is it for us if we
struggle to retain those dear dreams,
ideals, and enthusiasms which others as
easily lay aside with their outgrown
things.

When we look back, it is astonishing
to find how many delightful gardens we
have known, and not the least pleasant
thought in connection with them is that
our Seraphic Father St. Francis, whose,
highly sensitive temperament was in-
tensely alive to the charms of nature,
"encouraged," we are told "the growth
of beautiful flowers in the gardens of
his convents," holding that Holy Pov-
erty need not exclude simple beauty.

Possibly, nay, most probably — it was
His sons who planted that delicate little
blossom called the "Dunwich rose,"
which still grows wild upon the cliffs
once hallowed by the tread of their san-
dalled feet. Dunwich, it will be remem-
bered, was a once famous episcopal city
on the east coast of England — a city
which for two hundred and seventy
years possessed churches, monasteries,
and hospitals in large numbers, though
all that now remains of its former
greatness, is a tiny fishing village,
with a population of perhaps three hun-
dred souls.

Here, in the Ages of Faith, the
"Graye Friars" had a "goodbye house";
whilst the traces that may even yet be
seen of its "verie fayre church," prove it
to have been in truth a noble edifice.
Many a time has the writer dreamt the
golden dreams of childhood within its
sheltering walls, where the glorious
Gothic arches are open to the dome of
heaven and instead of the praise and
the prayer and the solemn chanting of
the Brethren, only the ceaseless sound
of breaking waves rises from the shing-
ly beach below, to mingle with the
soothing murmur of bees hovering
above the short sun-kissed grasses of
the cliff and the sighing of the sea wind

amongst the ivy-covered pillars of what
was once the nave.

How the Friars must have labored
here in days gone by, striving to live up
to the standard of their great yet hum-
ble founder, the prevailing motive in
whose life, and in whose death the pre-
vailing note which he desired to be-
queath to his sons forever, was a burn-
ing love of God as revealed by Jesus
Christ; and, from this, an intrepid de-
votion to the service of man. How they
must have gone forth on their errands
of mercy from the grand old gateway;
for the Franciscan spirit, then as now,
was essentially one of tender solicitude
for those in suffering, poverty, and sor-
row. Indeed it could not be otherwise,
seeing that the Little Poor One "utterly
gave himself for others." In no other
saint, perchance, has this wonderful
love of his fellow creatures been so
perfectly developed. It was so wide and
generous; the very miracles he wrought
were chiefly for the suffering, and conse-
quently he possessed the power of win-
ning men to an extraordinary extent.

Can we not picture his pleasure in
the little "Dunwich rose," which, like a
message from an long dead Past, speaks
to us of that keen, energizing faith that
can Never die; whispering to us to be-
ware lest we allow the restless, hurry-
ing waters of Time to so encroach upon
the shores of our soul that old beliefs
and old landmarks of hope and trust are
swept away as completely and as dis-
astrously, as the mighty waves of the
ocean have submerged this once famous
episcopal city?

How pleasant it is to wander, in im-
agination, through the gardens we have
known, on some winter evening when
outside the wind is tossing wildly in the
pine trees and inside, despite the cheer-
ful glow of piled-up logs, "the leaves of
Memory seem to make a mournful rust-
ling in the dark." Even as I write, the
picture of a large monastic garden rises
before me. At one corner, a gigantic
cedar "spreads its dark green layers of
shade"; whilst directly opposite —
though far from it, is an old acacia. Its
delicately green leaves show vividly
bright against a sapphire sky and oc-
casionally "a blossom, like an angel, out
of sight, yet blessing well," drifts soft-
ly down on some cowled figure pacing
beneath. Further on is a pear tree
which in spring is "a thing of beauty"
not to be described in ordinary words;
but now the blossoms have all departed,

FRANCISCAN HERALD

for it is June and the Feast of Cor-
pus Christi. The altar, which has been
erected under a laburnum, is already
glowing with the light of many candles
that burn steadily in the still, hot air.
Through the open windows of the church
can be heard the solemn notes of the
organ, and now mingling with — now
soaring above — the swelling current of
melody are hundreds of voices singing
the opening verse of the Pange Lingua;
a minute more and the procession has
passed out through the great doors,
whilst the music grows fainter in the
distance. Then, after a brief space, the
cross appears on the broad central path-
way beyond the choir, the sunlight
striking golden gleams from it as it is
borne slowly on. The rich banners, too,
with the white coltas and scarlet cas-
socks of the altar boys, and the blue
mantles of the children of Mary make
brilliant points of color amidst the sur-
rounding peace. Then come the school
children — boys and girls, then the relig-
ious in their habits, then the little ones,
who have that morning made their First
Communion, scattering flowers before
the Blessed Sacrament; and, lastly, fol-
lowing the canopy, an immense but rev-
erent crowd. The Tantum Ergo has been
sung — a breathless stillness has fallen
upon the kneeling throng — Benediction
is about to be given. But ere the sound
of the bell breaks silvery sweet upon the
silence, the scene passes from my sight
and another has taken its place.

This time it is a garden within a gar-
den — the lovliest little glade imaginable.
Tall trees shelter it on every side;
graceful ferns grow high in shady cor-
ners; the fair, lawnlike space, round
which the widespreading branches of
beech, elm, ancient thorn, and giant
bushes of creamy blossomed syringa
gather protectingly, is carpeted with
greenest moss, out of which, in May,
rises a profusion of lilies of the valley,
their pure white bells swinging softly
in the breeze.

In the very center of this sweet nook,
I see once more a tiny well of crystal
clear water, curly fernfronds and sway-
ing grasses overhanging its gray stone
rim; and above stands an exquisitely
sculptured marble statue of the Immac-
ulate Mother, holding her Divine Child
in her arms.

Have we not all, "amidst life's petty
strife," some sacred memory especially
connected with Our Lady, hidden deep
within our hearts — some treasured re-

February, 1922

membrance of a certain day or hour,
when perchance the l'adiant gleam in a
sunset-sky, or the silvery sheen of wav-
ing windflowers on a spring morning,
brought home to our minds, in a way
never hitherto experienced, the near-
ness of heaven and the fair image of
her who, standing beneath the cross,
become our Mother and our Queen?

Yes; surely it is thus with all of us.
Step by step, Mary goes with us as we>
journey on, saying the rosary of our
years; but none the less is the thought
of her entwined with our first conscious
recollections of things beautiful and 1
sublime. Mine must ever be inextri-
cably interwoven round the well I have-
tried so inadequately to describe "Ouri
Lady's Fountain," it is called, it being;
one of those ancient holy springs ini
England, though they are fewer tham
in Ireland.

Probably during the Ages of Faith, .
when numbers of pilgrims, passing;
along the "Palmer's Way," and Here--
mytes (hermits) on an heape withi
hoke'd (hooked) staves Wenten to Wal--
singham, not a few of them turned I
aside to pray in this fair secluded spott
and kneeling beside the "Mainden's-
Well," shed tears
Of dreadful bitterness for dear hopes <

dead,
Or anguished longings for what might

have been,
Or dumb despair, because the things not'

seen
Had lost their hold; or grief for harsh

words said.

Again, another garden seems to rise'«
before me. Facing due south, it sur-
rounds an old gabled house upon a hill.
A belt of pine trees shelters it on the ■
north and east and from a corner at
the edge of the cliff — that cliff washed
ever by the waves of a lovely land-
locked bay I used to watch the evening
star shining golden upon the water,
whilst I dreamt youthful dreams of at
happiness that could never be realized.
Where are now the flowers we tended?
Withered, broken-branch and stem,
Where are now the hopes we cherished ?
Scattered to the winds with them!

Yet, though the flowers fade and the
storms come, there are for most of us,
the sunny gardens of Memory, wherein
we may wander at will with the friends

we love best gardens gay with those

peerless blossoms of remembrance
which neither time can wither nor tem-
pest destroy.

"To make and hold
yourself good is the
best start toward
making the world
good." (Tertiary
Convention.)

THE HIDDEN THINGS OF THE WORLD

THE long, low car rolled noise-
lessly along the street. In
it were seated a lady — and
a wise man. Before a certain door
the noiseless car came silently to a
stop. And the chauffeur, bearing
a message from the lovely lady, en-
tered the building. In the gutter,
with awed eyes fastened on this ex-
hibition of power and lux-
ury, were two children.
There were other children,
who came, racing, and
standing in little groups,
watching, watching, with
great curious eyes, hop-
ping from one foot to the
other.

"Flies ... in winter
time," suggested the Wise
Man.

The Lovely Lady smiled
faintly.

"There are always such
flies . . . here," she
said. "I believe my good
Mary has a half-dozen of
them. Or . . . is it a
dozen? I forget."

The Wise Man shrugged
his shoulders.

"What matter?"

"Only to themselves —
poor things."

"Poor things — yes. That is right.
They are poor, aren't they?"

"Yes."

"And yet they have a certain
amount of happiness."

The Lovely Lady snuggled more
closely under the fur robe, and her
eyes were shadowed.

Happiness? . . . Well
happiness is somewhere in
the world. If one can find it."

Said the Wise Man: "My dear,
it is all in the state of mind."

Flippantly, wearily, she looked
at him.

"Whose mind?" she asked.

Then the chauffeur came out of
the dingy house, gave the Lovely

Lady a message in a low, respectful
tone, which she received graciously.
The car moved on, quietly, and the
little flies drifted away.

All but two — the two at the gut-
ter-edge.

The little girl had a shawl drawn
about her — a thick, red, knitted
shawl. Which kept her body warm,

though its usefulness had outlived
its respectability.

That was the only noticeable
thing about Nora Delaney — the red
shawl.

The boy's tousled head and blue
nose — it was cold — did not seem
amiss. Looking at him one knew
that in winter weather his nose was
always blue, his hair unkempt, his
hands grimy.

"You see, yourself," said Nora,
confidentially, "it is somewhere.
She said so — the Lady in the Lim-
ousine. Somewhere in the world.
That's what she said. If one could
find it. She said that, too."

"Well," remarked Timmy, and his
teeth chattered. "S'one sure thing.

You can't eat it, Nora."

"Poor Timmy!" said Nora. "You
ain't had your dinner?"

"No. Nor breakfast. And there
won't be any supper," briefly. "Old
man's busted up again."

"My mother'll give you some."
"Nix!" proudly. "Not no more.
Three times is out. I ain't no
sponge."

Nora was silent, her
chin sunk in her red shawl.
"Timmy," she said, "I'm
cold."
"So'm I."
Again a silence.
"Timmy . . . I'm
freezing cold!"
"So'm I, Nora."
"Let's go in."
He shivered.
"Well . . . then

They went up a flight of
stairs. "Ouch!" said Nora.
And another flight
"O-o-h!" whim-
pered Nora. "0 Timmy!
O Timmy! I've a tooth-
ache! I've a toothache!"
She opened a door and
plunged into a warm
kitchen, where a kind-
faced woman stood at the stove,
stirring a savory mess in a black
iron pot. "0 Mom! O Mom!" she
cried. "Ive got a toothache! I've
got a toothache!"

"Mercy, child!" said the mother.
"A toothache! An' you haven't a
bad tooth in your head, thanks be
to God. What's the matter with
you, Nora?"

The child buried her face in her
mother's neck, her lips close to her
mother's ear, whispering, whisper-
ing:

"Mom, give Timmy my supper.

He says he won't take no more. Give

it to him, 'cause — 'cause I have a

toothache ... No breakfast

no dinner . . . no

FRANCISCAN HERAT. D

February, 1928

supper

Please, Mom

The mother patted the red shawl,
comfortingly.

"Go lie down the bed, alanna,"
she said. "An' pull the shawl up
over your face — it's cold, you are!
You, Timmy!" to the anxious-eyed
lad, with the blue nose and the
grimy fingers, " 'twould be a shame
to waste the good food. Sit over
now and let me give you Nora's
share, that's a boy. We'll be getting
her a cup of warm milk when the
toothache's better."

Said the Lady in the Limousine,
warm under her costly robe of fur:

"Happiness? . . . Well
it's somewhere in the world.
If one could find it."

And the Wise Man answered her.
"My dear, it is all in the state of
mind."

And the Lady asked, flippantly,
wearily: "Whose mind?"

They talked . . . like that.
And very much more than that —
oh, very much more. It sounded

wise, but it was mostly foolish and
futile.

For they were never likely to
know that Happiness lay in the ]
spirit under the little red shawl.

For the kingdom of heaven is like

unto
A treasure hidden in the field
Which a man, having found,
Hid it — and for joy thereof, goeth,
And selleth all that he hath
And buyeth that field. (St. Mat-
thew, xiii. 44.)

MY SAINT POLLY

By Annette S. Driscoll

SOME years ago, wher
through a little New '.
town, I bethought me
on a lady with whom I had
very friendly terms during
she was living in my home

To my surprise, my rinj.
door-bell was answered by |
in uniform, who to my inqj
Miss G. at home?" replie<
she is at home; but she h
sick in bed for the past six r
I was greatly shocked on
that she would probably
cover, and so I did not expe
her. But the nurse told h<
there, and she insisted on
ing to her room.

What I saw there I wis
the power to describe. Ml
was ill with a malady whicl
probably as intense a pain as the
human body can endure and sur-
vive. Yet in that room of suffer-
ing was an atmosphere of radiance
such as I have never encountered
elsewhere. I have seen many who
were ill — suffering — dying, and
bearing it all with Christ-like pa-
tience and resignation to the Divine
will; but never before or since has
it been my privilege to witness so
radiant an acceptance of intense
and long drawn out agony.

She described her sufferings to
me in an impersonal manner as if
she were speaking of someone else,
adding, "They think I am wonderful
because I never complain, but I am
just taking it all as my Purgatory."

True, this has been said in all

parish, but a distinguished monsig-
nor of the Church, a family friend
of long standing, ministered to her
spiritual needs. She herself said
to me, "I know that everything that
science, and everything that religion
can do, is doing for me. I should
like to get well for the sake of those
who will grieve when I go, but
otherwise I have no choice in the
matter."

After her soul had taken its flight
to the glorious home which we must
believe awaited her, the distin-
guished cleric above mentioned,
said to her friends assembled at
her deathbed, "We can all pray to
her, even though the Church bids us
pray for her."

A few incidents in her life dur-

hort acquaintance with her,
it in my memory, and show
many years she was pre-
lierself for the graces be-
on her so plentifully and
ad to so faithfully during
nths of martyrdom. She
to our parish, not knowing
n by a single person in it;
n not handsome but attrac-
,h a carriage that made her
it distinctly from all about
ays elegantly and tastefully
but with the air of being
; manner born as to be quite
ious of her clothes. She
n at one, often at two holy
every morning, remaining
knees practically all that
id for so long afterwards
rcely anyone ever remained
long enough to know when she left
the church.

One morning, a poor woman, hum-
bly clad, had some difficulty about
lighting a candle and was going
away from the altar without ac-
complishing her purpose, when Miss
G., seeing her plight, left her pew,
and with great simplicity and kind-
ness went to her assistance.

Meeting me in the vestibule after
holy Mass, she opened a conversa-
tion by referring with great interest
to the poor woman. Thus began a
warm friendship between us. She
told me then how she came to be
living by herself in a strange place.
She belonged to a prosperous, cul-
tured and very happy family, and
(Continued on page 78)

In hemstitching a square the inside
overfold is cut away at the corners

The individuality of hand-made
hings is always appreciated, no matter
low skilfully a machine can do the
vprk. In spite of tailors and tailor-
:sses every woman should be able to
nake a good buttonhole, and as to dec-
irative stitches, one wants to wear
land-made clothes occasionally. They
ire always in style, and you can afford
o wear them only if you do the work
■ourself.

lemstitching :

Take hemstitching, for instance. It
s easier to hemstitch than it is to do
'lain hemming, and yet there are many
ieople who go about it in the wrong
fay. There are several rather com-
licated knot hemstitches; but in this
ase, as in all others, the simplest is the
est.

Now here is the most simple way
hemstitch:

Draw out from three to five threads
f the material along the line where
he hem is to come. If you want a
alf-inch hem, draw out the threads
n inch and a quarter from the edge,
'irst turn the material a quarter of an
ich down, then half an inch down and
aste it exactly against the lower edge
f the drawn-out thread line. If you
re hemstitching a square, you should
aste the hem on the two opposite sides
rst, in order to get the corners right,
he inside overfold should be cut away
i the corners to within an eighth of
n inch of the drawn-out line running
t right angles to the one you are bast-
ig, and also to within an eighth of an
ich of the top of this overfold. The

AN ELEMENTARY LESSON IN
FANCY SEWING

second diagram in the illustration shows
this quite plainly.

Now it will be necessary to baste
these small eighth-of-an-inch turnovers
as indicated in the same diagram. This
insures the corner being kept square.
Turn down the corner and the entire
side an eighth of an inch, and again
half an inch, until it lies exactly against
the upper edge of this second side. Be
very careful that the open drawn lines

of the corner match each other perfect-
ly, and when you hold the corner thus
prepared for hemstitching to the light,
you will see that, like the hem, it is
only double except on the extreme
edges. Unless the corner is cut away
in this manner, it is very clumsy.

You are now ready to hemstitch. Hold
the work over the forefinger of the left
hand, and use a fine needle and fine cot-
ton. First take an ordinary hemming
stitch, holding the end of the thread
until you have done a few stitches, in
order to fasten it. Do not make a knot.
Insert the needle under a small group
of threads in the drawn-out line, as
shown in the first diagram. Draw the
thread through its full length, pulling
toward the top of the hem, with the
thumb holding the hem firmly against

the drawn-out line. Insert the needle
again at the back of the group of
threads, as in the second diagram, tak-
ing a plain hemming stitch through the
material and through the overfold.
Draw the thread out its full length.
This is the most simple kind of hem-
stitching.

Incrustation Stitch:

There is another very little known
stitch by which lace is applied to a fine
fabric, such as a handkerchief. It is
known as "incrustation," and may be
used both for insertions and edges. To
do this work, lay the lace over the edge
of the material to the depth of about
half an inch. ' Baste it perfectly
straight, a little distance from the edge
of the lace. Now insert the needle in
the material this side of the edge of
the lace, and take a stitch backward
in the material, as indicated in Fig. 1.
Draw the thread tightly, and put the
needle in the material in the same hole
in which it was first inserted, and bring
it out through the material and the
extreme edge of the lace as in Fig 2.
Draw the thread through the full
length. Take a stitch back through
the lace edge and the material, and
bring it out in the hole where the thread
leaves the ground material, or in the
hole which was pierced in the previous
stitch (Fig. 3). Draw this thread
through its full length, insert the needle
as though taking the stitch a second

Examples of "rolling"
and "whipping."

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February, 1922

time, and bring it out in th2 material
on the line with the last stitch which
was taken through the material as in
Fig. 4. Repeat this until the lace is
fastened to the material. At the back
it will appear like a herringbone stitch.
Draw the thread tightly in this
way, and making practically a stitch
and a half each time, the lace is thus
finished with a pretty open edge which
looks like hemstitching. Now cut away
the linen from under the lace to within
an eighth of an inch from the edge.
This raw edge does not make the work
weak; it will launder very well. Wom-
en who do exquisite work are not at
all afraid of a raw edge on the wrong
side of a thing, and very often they
avoid in this way what might be called
sewing a thing to death — the kind of
relentless sewing which takes away
much grace and spontaneity.

Rolling and Whipping:

Insertions are, of course, not incrust-
ed except in very beautiful or small
pieces of work. The usual way for put-
ting insertions is far more simple. They
may be either rolled or whipped, or,
more simple still, they may be put in
by over-sewing without rolling the ma-
terial. Here is the method: Lay the
lace over the surface of the material
and fasten it on the right side with fine
running stitches on each extreme edge,
as shown in the first diagram of rolling
and whipping. Cut away the linen at
the back to within a sixteenth of an
inch to where it is sewn, and then, on
the wrong side, by very close top sew-
ing, whip in this raw edge to the edge
of the insertion, as in the second dia-
gram. The work must be very closely
sewn in order to prevent its pulling out.
If it is closely sewn it is absolutely
firm.

If one is particular, after basting the
insertion, cut the linen and roll and
whip as the work proceeds, but this is
much more difficult. It is, however,
necessary to roll the material in case
of a lace edge, and this is done by roll-
ing the edge slightly between the thumb
and forefinger. Then lay the edge out
straight over the forefinger and the
material straight in front of it, and
slip the needle under the rolled edge
and through the extreme edge of the
lace, as shown in the lower diagram
of rolling and whipping.
Buttonhole Stitch:

Another very important factor in lin-
gerie work is the making of buttonholes.
Embroidery buttonhole stitch is quite
different from the stitch with which a
buttonhole is made. First run the edge
of what will be the buttonhole down the
left side and up the right. With sharp
scissors cut in between these two lines.

Turn the work so as to hold the but-
tonhole lengthwise over the forefinger,
with the left side toward you, the edge
of the buttonhole away from you; this
last point is particularly important. In-
sert the needle over the open edge,
pointing it exactly toward you, with
the thread thrown to the left. Now,
holding the thread over the third and
little finger of the right hand, carry
the double portion of it, next to the
eye, to the left, and throw it over the
needle. Draw the needle through the
full length of the thread, forming a
knot on the upper side of the edge. In
this work do not let the thread leave
the right hand until it draws the stitch
firmly through. In drawing the stitch
through it is again wrapped ove the
third and little finger, and is ready to
throw over the next stitch. When the
end of the buttonhole is reached, allow
the knot of the loop stitch to come for-
ward on the lower edge rather than on
the upper as before. This finishes the
little lip of the buttonhole, which wears
well around the button. About four
stitches will turn this corner. Turn the
work and buttonhole the second side in
the same way as the first. When the
starting-point is again reached insert the
needle over the two edges. Draw a
plain stitch through, and then another
through the same holes. On these two
stitches make three or four buttonhole
stitches. Insert the needle and fasten
the thread on the wrong side.
Buttonhole Loops:

Buttonhole loops — the diagrams of
which are shown — are made with the
same stitch, and, as they are much used
on blouses to fasten the cuffbands, you
will want to know how to do them prop-
erly. Slip in the knotted thread by run-
ning it under the hem or tuck, bringing
the knot on the right side, which you
can afterward cut off. The first stitch
is taken through at the right-hand side

of the loop. Put the needle in at a dis
tance of the width of the loop from this
stitch. Take it through the edge of thi !
material, keeping the thread to the left
Throw the thread over as you woulc
form a buttonhole stitch. This twists
the thread on the loop. Now take the
needle into the same stitch on the right
where you began the work. Again pu(
the needle through the same stitch or
the left, and make another buttonhoh
loop. Once again take the needlt
through the stitch on the right. Yoi
have now four threads forming youi
loop, and if you have taken the button-
hole stitch through properly you wil!
have no difficulty in making these loops
all the same size, and held together, as
in the second figure of the illustration
Now, on this right-hand corner, take z
buttonhole stitch into the material tc
make the start firm. Up to this point
you have held the loop toward you.|
Now turn the work so that you are)
holding the loop away from you. Con-
tinue to buttonhole on the loop exactly
as you did the buttonhole itself, in every
case throwing the thread around to thd
left over the needle, and drawing the
purl to the outside of the loop. This
gives you an absolutely regular, firm
wiry loop which wears beautifully and|
washes well. In embroidery button-
holing the purling is toward you, but
in tailor buttonholing the purl is away
from you; thus the two stitches have a
totally different construction. When
you have finished it round to the left-
hand corner take one buttonhole stitch
through the material, slip the needle
under and fasten off on the wrong side.

Ecclesiastical Cinctures :

The stitch differs from the ordinary
single stitch crochet, in that the needle
is stabbed down from the top and the
stitch turned outside in. (See illustra-
tion.) The needle is pushed through
the little
straight line of
cord that runs
between the
scrolls. These
cinctures can
be made any I
size. The ones
in general use
are:

Chain four
and join in
ring, then go
round and
round in single
crochet, i. e.,
draw cord
through once,
thread over
needle, draw)
through two.

February, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

Ecclesiastical Cincture

The linen cord may be purchased in
any embroidery or department store.
No. 16, the coarsest number, is the one
used, and that must be doubled. It will
take about eight balls to make a cinc-
ture four yards long, with tassels, using
a No. 4 needle.

Tassels: Wind the cord seven times
round the finger, then join in ring, con-
tinue in this way until you have fifteen
loops in the ring. Chain three and
fasten in the fifteen loops in ring. Cro-
chet round until you have seven rows
of loops, then make two rows of shells.
Finish the tassels with a fringe com-
posed of forty-five chain stitches done
with coarse needle.

These cinctures can be made very
beautifully with silk, carrying with the
double silk one linen thread to give
body.

THE COSMOS EDGING

Begin in the following manner. (This
I row is not counted in the numbered
'rows of the design, as it is only a pre-
liminary.) Make 15 ch, 1 tr in the 8th
i stitch from the needle, 3 ch 1 tr again
in the same place, miss 2 stitches and
put 1 tr into each of the remaining
stitches, 3 ch, turn.

1st row. 1 tr into the second tr of
last row, then work 1 tr, 3 ch and 1
tr into each of the spaces of 3 ch in
last row, 1 ch, 1 tr in remaining loop,
5 ch, turn.

2nd row. Work 1 tr, 3 ch and 1 tr
into each of the spaces of 3 ch and 2 tr
in the 2 tr at the end, 3 ch, turn.

3rd row. Same as first.
4th row. Same as second.
(This straight part of the design
makes the insertion.)

5th row. Begin the same as the first
row then continue for the scallop, which
is worked back in the part over
the insertion of the previous rows.
6ch, 1 d c over the side of the tr stitch
last made, 5 ch, turn.

6th row. 1 d c in the loop of 6 ch,
5 ch, 1 d c in the same place, 5 ch, 1
d c in same place, 1 slip stitch into ad-
joining tr, 5 ch, make 2 tr divided by
3 ch in each of the two spaces of the
insertion, as before, 2 tr in 2 tr of edge,
turn.

7th row. 2 tr, 1 tr 3 ch and 1 tr in
each of the two spaces as before, 1 ch,
1 tr in following loop, 5 ch, 1 d c in first
of the three loops which were made in
loop of 6 ch, 5 ch, 1 d c in centre loop,

5 ch, 1 d c in same place, 5 ch, 1 d c
in third loop, 5 ch, 1 d c in next gap
of the insertion (to the left) 2 ch, 1 d c
in next hole, 3 ch, turn.

8th row. 1 tr in last loop of 5 ch,
3 ch, work: 1 d c, 3 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch, 1 tr,

3 ch and 1 d c into each of the next three
loops; then 3 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch, 1 tr into
next loop, and the same in each of the
two spaces in the insertion, 2 tr into
the 2 tr of edge, turn the work.

9th row. 2 tr, then 1 tr, 3 ch and
1 tr into each of the two spaces of in-
sertion 2 ch, 1 tr in small space of 1 ch,
following, 2 ch and 1 tr in next space
of 3 ch, 6 ch, 1 d c in the center space
of the first little point of the scallop,

6 ch, 1 d c into the first space of the
center point, 6 ch, 1 d c into the last
space of the center point, 6 ch, 1 d c
into center space of the third point,
6 ch, 1 tr, in the end space of the last
row, 3 ch, 1 d c in next hole of the in-
sertion, 2 ch, 1 d c in next hole, 3 ch,
turn.

10th row. 1 tr in last made space
of 3 ch and in each loops of 6 ch, work
1 d c, 3 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch and

1 d c, then 3 ch, 1 tr in the tr stitch
between the following two spaces of

2 ch, 3 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch, 1 tr, in each of
the spaces of the insertion, 2 tr on the
2 tr of the edge, turn the work.

11th row. 2 tr, 1 tr, 3 ch, 1 tr in
each of the next two spaces, 1 ch, 1 tr

in next space, 3 ch, 1 d c in next space,
6 ch, 1 d c in the center space of the
first little point of the scallop * 6 ch,
1 d c, in the first space of the next
point; repeat twice more from *; 6 ch,

1 d c in the center space of the next
point, 6 ch, 1 d c in the end space of
the last row; 3 ch, 1 d c in next hole of
the insertion, 4 ch, turn.

12th row. In each of the nine loops
of 6 ch, work 1 d c, 3 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch, 1
tr, 3 ch, 1 d c; then 3 ch, 1 d c in the
following space of 3 ch, 5 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch,
and 1 tr in each of the spaces of the in-
sertion, 2 tr into the 2 tr of the edge;
turn the work.

This is the end of one pattern. To
continue the lace begin again at the
first numbered row.

FOR THE CORNER

1st row. Same as the first row of
the lace pattern.

2nd row and 3rd row. The same as
second and third of the lace.

4th row. 5 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch and 1 tr
into each of the two spaces, omit the

2 tr at the edge, turn the work.

5th row. 1 slipstitch into the last
made space, 3 ch for tr, 3 ch, 1 tr into
the same space, 1 tr, 3 ch, 1 tr into the
next space, 1 ch, 1 tr into the following
loop. Now begin the scallop. 6 ch,
1 d c over the side of the tr stitch just
made, turn the work.

6th row. * 5 ch, 1 d c in the loop of
6 ch, repeat from * three times; 1 slip-
stitch in the adjoining tr stitch, 2 ch,
1 d c in the following space of 3 ch of
the insertion (leave the top space), turn.

7th row. 5 ch, 1 d c in the first of
the four loops, * 5 ch, 1 d c, in the next
loop; repeat from * twice; then, 5 ch,
1 d c in the next hole of the insertion
(to the left), 2 ch, 1 d c in next; turn.

8th 'ow. 3 ch, 1 tr in last made
loop of 5 ch, 3 ch, work into each of the
next four loops; 1 d c, 3 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch,
1 tr, 3 ch, 1 d c, then 3 ch, 1 d c in top
space of the insertion, turn the work.

9th row. 6 ch, 1 d c in the center
space of the first point of the scallop, *
6 ch, 1 d c in the first space of the next
point, 6 ch, 1 d c in the third space of
the same point, repeat from * once
more; then 6 ch, 1 d c in the center
space of the next point, 6 ch, 1 tr in
the end space of the last row, 3 ch,

1 d c in the next hole of the insertion,

2 ch, 1 d c in the next hole, turn.

10th row. 3 ch, 1 tr in last space of

3 ch, then in each loop of 6 ch, work:
1 d e, 3 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch and
1 d c, as before. Now 3 ch, 1 tr again

(Continued on page 78)

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THE COSMOS EDGING

(Continued from page 75)
in the last loop, 2 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch, 1 tr
into the ch which took the place of a
tr at the beginning of the fifth row,
1 tr, 3 ch and 1 tr, under the tr at the
top of the 4th row, 1 tr more in the
same place and make a slipstitch in the
top stitch of the edge of the 3rd row;
turn the work.

11th row. 3 ch, for a tr, 1 tr in last
tr stitch, and 1 tr, 3 ch, 1 tr into each
of the next two spaces of 3 ch, 1 ch,
1 tr in following space of 2 ch, 3 ch,
1 d c in next space, 6 ch, 1 d c in the
center space of the first point of the
scallop, * 6 ch, 1 d c in the first space
of the next point, 6 ch, 1 d c in the 3rd
space of the same point, 6 ch, 1 d c
in the center space of next point, repeat
from * twice more. Now, 6 ch, 1 d c
in the end space of last row, 3 ch, 1 d c
in the next hole of the insertion; turn
the work.

12th row. 4 ch in each of the 11
loops of 6 ch work as before; 1 d c,
3 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch, 1 tr, 3 ch and 1 d c, then
3 ch, 1 d c in the following space of
3 ch, 5 ch, then 1 tr, 3 ch, 1 tr in each
of the two spaces of 3 ch of the inser-
tion ana 2 tr in the 2 tr of the edge;
turn the work.

This is the end of the corner; to con-
tinue the lace start over at the first
numbered row.

MY SAINT POLLY

(Continued from page 72)

had never known work or care of
any kind. A bazaar had been on
in her parish and in its interest she
exerted herself to such an extent
that when it was over she felt ex-
hausted and remained in bed for
a day or so. Her mother, apparent-
ly well, was at her bedside, minis-
tering to her needs, when suddenly
she dropped dead beside her. This
terrible calamity brought Miss G. to
a serious physical condition and
also broke up her home, for her
father had died some years before,
while her brothers and sisters were
scattered far and wide.

An old and valued non-Catholic
friend having married and moved
to my home city, Miss G. engaged
rooms with her in order that a
brother, to whom she was greatly
attached, and who was a traveling
man, could easily reach her when-
ever he was in the neighborhood of
Boston, of which E. is a suburb.

FRANCISCAN HERALD

Having neither household nor other
cares, she was at liberty to go to
daily Mass and to stay as long as
she wished. "Ah! how easy!" one
might say— but how many avail
themselves to the full of this oppor-
tunity when it is theirs?

Once when I was visiting her, her
non-Catholic friend referred to her
habit of kneeling so long and to
the effect it produced in her knees.
Thereupon Miss G. told us the
story of a little girl whose mother
died and left her to care for sev-
eral younger children. One day the
poor child said pathetically, "I have
never had time to go to church
much, but when I die I want to
show the Lord my hands." "Now,"
said Miss G., "I don't do any good in
the world, I am of no use to any one,
so when I die I want to show the
Lord my knees."

In course of time her non-Catho-
lic friend was stricken with a mor-
tal disease, and she who was "of no
use to any one," not only heroically
nursed her during a long illness,
but in addition brought her to the
waters of Baptism and to the happy
death of a Catholic.

In caring for her she brought
upon herself a painful malady from
which she was a long time recover-
ing. During this period she became
interested in an aged lady who had
outlived practically all her rela-
tives and- friends. She first con-
verted her to the true faith, and
then, took a modest apartment in the
little town of S., for the purpose of
making a home for the lonely old
lady.

Here she threw herself whole-
heartedly into the task of home-
making. She provided tenderly for
the old lady in every way until the
latter died at the advanced age of
90. She, to whom all this work was
foreign, became so excellent a cook
and housekeeper and so much in
love with it all, that, though urged,
after the old lady's death, to live
with her dearly loved sister, she
chose to remain in her own home,
when the necessity of making one
for another no longer existed. It
was there that God sent the Angel
of Death to conduct His servant to
her true Home.

On the outside of an envelope in
which, shortly before her death,

February, 19

she had placed some scapulars, wit
directions that they be put on h« (
corpse when it was ready for th
casket, she wrote these beautifi
lines :

"Let no one shed tears but pra
for my soul, and do not grieve fc
me, but all who are left serve Go
and be happy."

All her life she was intensely dt
voted to the holy Mass and to he
Rosary, which her sister declare
she used so constantly that sh
really wore out the beads.

Such is a brief outline of some o
the high lights in the character o
this unassuming friend of God, wh
would have been greatly surprisei
in her lifetime had any one referrei
to her as a saint, but of whom th
writer of this little tribute certainl;
believes that "of such is the King
dom of Heaven," for surely on he:
soul was stamped the Sign and Sea
of her redemption.

ST. FRANCIS DETERMINES TO
WIN HIS BRIDE

ONE evening (while still in the
world) Francis was appointed by his
fellow-revelers as their chief, so that
he might spend their contributions as
he pleased. Accordingly (as he had
often done) , he had a sumptuous feast
prepared; and when they left the
house, his companions went before
him together, and passed through the
city singing, while he, bearing a wand
in his hand as their chief, came a lit-
tle behind them, not singing, but deep
in thought. And suddenly the Lord
visited him, and his heart was filled
with such sweetness that he could
neither speak nor move. . . . But
when his companions looked behind
them and saw that he was so far
away from them, they turned back,
and, filled with awe, perceived that
he had already been changed, as it
were, into another man. Then they
questioned him, saying: "What wast
thou thinking of that thou didst not
come after us? Perhaps thou wast
thinking of taking a wife?" "You have
said the truth," he eagerly replied,
"for I have thought to take a nobler,
richer, and fairer bride than you ever
saw." And they mocked him. But
this he said, not of himself, but in-
spired by God: for that bride was
the true Religion that he embraced,
nobler, richer, and fairer than all
others, through poverty. — 3 Soc. 7.

FRANCISCAN HERALD

The Girl Who Stayed Home

By Eileen Sherwood

Illustration by Alice Seipp

I stud
\_^ was

JORINNA, what are you going to
ndy at college next year?
ras Irene, the "sensible t\
talking.

"Oh, just the regular course." absent-
ly. "Madamcs going to put those new
lace rosettes on my dress."

"But students don't take regular
courses nowadays," persisted wise Irene.
"They specialize. I'm going to be a
private secretary. Miss Crane said to
study business law and economics —
would you like that?"

"Of course, if I could have clothes like
hers. Didn't she wear the stunningest
suit Sunday? But she looked too tired
to really enjoy it. Xo wonder — it's taken
her ten years to climb to her present
position."

Irene shrugged exasperatedly.

"Tou might try trained nursing. The
uniform is universally becoming. Or
newspaper work — Kate Boyd, of the
"Star,' has a good-looking coat."

Corinna only laughed.

"If you don't look out," she said,
"•you'll turn into a career — a prim stiff-
collared one, with typewriter keys for
fingers and a filing cabinet for brain,"

"Corinna, I should think you'd be
serious! Tou know it was surprising in
"Uncle Jonas to offer to send us at all.
after mother offended him by marrying
a poor minister, right after he'd sent
her through normal! She's had a hard
time — " Irene's voice trembled.

Corinna became suddenly grave. "Hon-
estly. I don't know what to do. It's
worrying me more than you think."

"Molly Kane makes loads of money in
her little Kandy Kraft Shop," suggested
Irene.

"Oh — a business!" Corinna's first signs
of animation. "That's surely the quick-
est way to get a good income — Molly
started that shop less than two years
ago. And she's so independent. But —
I've neither training nor capital."

That evening Corinna mailed a letter.
"To Uncle Jonas. Said I couldn't decide
on a career, asked for advice."

"Tou didn't!" Irene was horrified.
"He'll think you incapable — imprac-
ticable!"

The answer came with alarming
promptness.
"My Jen Xiece:

I have always hoped some of the Brewster practicabil-
ity awld manifest itself in Nelly's family. I suggest
that you stay at home a year in order to make up your
mind.

Very truly.

Jonas Brewster."

Irene forbore to say "I told you so."
She left, lonesomely. in September. In
govern ber. Corinna's letters suddenly
brightened; at Christmas vacation she
appeared almost happy. Her gift to
Irene was a Georgette blouse, beauti-
fully embroidered. And in the spring
came a white linen middy suit, perfectly
tailored.

Irene elected to stay for summer ses-
sion, whereupon Corinna invited herself
down for Commencement Week.

"Afraid you won't have a good time,"
"Wrote Irene, but she met the train
eagerly.

"Corinna won't be fashionable, but
she's prettier than most of them,"
she thought, loyally.

A girl was descending, one of those
girls at whom every one looks twice. It
was partly the sheen of honey-colored
waves and puffs beneath the smart little
traveling hat, partly the "chic" of her
softly blousing top coat of black silk

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ewjo'jemente.

jersey — but not a little the grace and
poise which held one's eyes — that poise
which comes from the consciousness of
being perfectly dressed.

The girl turned — "Corinna!"

"Tell me — wherever did you get — !"
began Irene in her room, staring at Co-
rinna's pretty taffeta frock.

"Xo time now. Mr. Sullivan is going
to show me the campus. And the dance
tonight, with a faculty escort! You're
going, too!" Corinna hugged her ecstat-
ically.

"Thanks! But my new ball costumes
haven't come from Paris."

From her bag Corinna took a rosy
armful. "With your dark skin you need
vivid shades. Aren't those organdy
roses sweet?"

Corinna, at the dance, in pale pink and
silver, was a picture that set more than
one masculine heart racing, and she was
the center of attention.

Even quiet Irene sparkled in her rose-
tinted organdy.

The remainder of Corinna's visit was
a -whirl of engagements. From the won-
der bag came the most fetching after-
noon toilette that ever wrought havoc
on a campus. White chiffon paneled in
white thread lace, over black taffeta and
sashed with black maline, and a big
white lace hat, too, wreathed with black
maline poppies.

"Where — ?" besought Irene, but the
telephone summoned her sister. And
finally, the train whisked her, smiling
sphinx-like, away.

In August Irene came home. Alight-
ing from the car, she glanced down the
suburban business street.

"A new shop! What a pretty window!"

Others evidently shared Irene's en-
thusiasm, for few passers-by failed to
stop before it.

A door was flung open, a dear familiar
voice —

"Been watching for you!"

After a while, comfortabl;- seated in
an armchair by the gleaming little show
case, Irene listened.

"I was so discouraged last fall." Co-
rinna began. "I didn't know if Uncle
would ever send me — I didn't know what
to do. We all needed new things — cloth-

ing was still high. But materials were
cheaper. If only I could sew!

"Then I learned of a school — the
Woman's Institute — which teaches wo-
men and girls right in their homes
everything I wanted to know about
dressmaking. It was so reasonable and
I was wild to learn, so I began.

"And. do you know, in a month I was
able to make that Georgette blouse for
you? Several girls wanted one like it.
Then I could soon make cunning things
for children, and those bring such good
prices. Then came Sally Jones' wedding
in the spring, and not a dressmaker
could she find. She begged me to try,
and I wrote to the Institute for help.

"They gave me just the advice I
needed and helped me plan the dresses.
I copied Sally's wedding gown from the
Fashion Service, an exclusive service
issued by the Institute only to its stu-
dents. It's simply full of lovely clothes
and you learn just how to make them!

"Finally I started my shop. The In-
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doing well — cleared $40 last week and
have an assistant engaged. I'm going
to carry my own materials in stock.

"Does Uncle Jonas know?" asked
Irene, finding voice at last.

Corinna laughed. "He came for a visit
— you should have seen his astonish-
ment. Offered to lend me money — said
it looked like a good investment to him
— but I told him I didn't need it. He
seemed dazed and kept repeating some-
thing about the Brewster blood."

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ALL ABOUT A CANDLE

Everybody knows what Candle-
mas means — the Feast of the Puri-
fication, the day when Our Blessed
Lady and St. Joseph went up to the
Temple to offer the Holy Infant to
God. But do my Young Folks know
why this feast goes by the name of
"Candlemas," and why candles are
a feature of its celebration? In
these, our days of electric light,
candles are held in very little esti-
mation for lighting, of course. But
the Church has a different idea
about them and will light her altars
with nothing else, except in the
most extreme cases, and even then,
there must be some candles at least
lighted and burning during serv-
ice. They have a story of their
own.

Candles used to be "somebodies."
In bygone days, far, very far back
in the history of the world, they
were used as marks of homage and
joy before great kings and heroes.
No triumphal procession or celebra-
tion was complete without a blaze
of light. Around the Roman Em-
peror, the Grecian or Syrian king,
great torches were carried, their
streams of fire ascending to the
skies. In the temples of the Israel-
ites and the heathens alike, lamps
and candles dispelled the gloom and
made the hearts of the worshippers
light; for they meant not only mate-
rial vision, real sight, but they
stood also for the faith, the reven-
ence, the worship of those who bore
them Or placed them before the
shrine. Light is the greatest thing
in the world. Is it not the first and
the last thing we see, life itself in
a way? For no one could live
without its warming of the earth,
its power of causing growth; so it
has always been taken as a symbol
of rejoicing. When the old Simeon
took Our Lord into his arms in the

Conducted by Elizabeth Rose

Temple, he said He would become
a Light to the Gentiles. So it is
that the Church blesses these car-
riers of light for us, and gives them
to us for our homes as well as uses
them in her services. The Feast of
Candlemas used to be celebrated
with great solemnity in old Catholic
times, before Protestantism came
into existence. Crowds flocked to
the churches, and long processions
were held through the aisles, each
one present carrying his or her
blessed candle, while hymns were
sung, and the young acolytes wafted
sweet-smelling incense all about
from their silver censers. Many peo-
ple presented to the Church great
candles that would burn for months
at a time, decorated and made into
things of real beauty. This old cus-
tom was followed, according to the
newspapers, a short while ago,
when the great tenor Caruso died.
An immense candle of wax, war-
ranted to burn continuously for at
least a year, was placed in com-
memoration of him before the altar
of a favorite shrine of his, Our
Lady of Pompeii. It used to be the
custom at Rome for the Pope him-
self, in his private chapel, to bless
candles on February 2, and dis-
tribute them, one by one, first to his
cardinals, then to the bishops and
priests present, after which, as-
cending his chair of state and fol-
lowed by all present, he was brought
to the foot of the altar and holy
Mass commenced. (By the way,
when the Pope says High Mass, all
candles used on the altar are dec-
orated.)

But there are other candles with
a history besides our blessed ones.
It was a wax candle which was
practically the first clock. There
had been plenty of means, of course,
for telling time before the time of
King Alfred the Great, who reigned
80

in England in the ninth century;!
but he was a man who put a candid
and old Father Time together in his!
mind and thought out our present
method. Alfred would have made a,
splendid American; he was always,
planning and trying experiments —
that is, whenever the difficulty of,
trying to keep on his throne per-j
mitted. He was very successful as)
an inventor for the times, and one
day it struck him that the system I
of time-keeping might easily be im-'
proved upon. So he got right toj
work at it. He found that if he]
made six candles, each twelve
inches long, equally thick, that
these, if burnt one after the other,
would last him exactly 24 hours. I
suppose he went telling his dis-'
covery all around the place —
wouldn't you have done it your-:
selves? Everything went finely
after that — everybody had six can-]
dies, to be sure; it was "the thing."
But a difficulty arose. If one ofi
these candles was taken out into the
air (after the fashion of a watch,
I suppose, to time things) the air
had not the least hesitation in often
blowing out "the clock"; and there
you were! So Alfred put four sides
of transparent horn around his
candles, and behold! a lantern.
Now each inch of wax could live
out tranquilly its allotted 20 min-
utes. Alfred was a better clock-
maker than cook. You all know the
story of how, when flying from his
enemies in disguise, a poor woman
who gave him shelter set him to
work at baking cakes for her; and
he, thinking perhaps of his clock-
to-be, forgot to watch them and
burnt them all up! They burnt
more fiercely and not anything like
as usefully as his six candles —
which simply goes to prove that if
you wish to accomplish anything in
this world you must go to work the
right way about it.

February, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

HOW WASHINGTON KEPT HIS
OWN BIRTHDAY

How pleasant it must be to help
keep your own birthday, with guns
firing in your honor and processions
marching past you saluting and
cheering, and banquets at which
you sit at the head of the table the
guest of honor, and no end of
speechmaking and compliments
right to your very face, and good
wishes without stint showered upon
you! I wonder if George Washing-
ton looked at it that way? For we
have his own words to a friend that
"if I do not grossly deceive myself,
distinction has no enticing charms
or fascinating allurements for me."
(You see George was up on his dic-
tionary words all right.) Well, he
had to go through it, just the same,
and I imagine he did like it a bit,
after all, don't you ?

After the Revolution, the new
United States decided to keep his
birthday as a holiday instead of
that of old King George III of Eng-
land, who had once been lord and
master, and whose subjects they re-
fused to be any longer. But they
weren't going to lose a celebration,
so they put Washington's birthday
in the place of the monarch's, with
far better reason. And didn't they
make it fine for him! They drank
his health and made eloquent
speeches in his honor and sang his
praises to him, till hardly anybody
but the General could have stood it
— however, he was a rather serious
gentleman, who never allowed him-
self to get too excited, and he was
probably the least enthusiastic of
the company.

This was even before he was
made President. After that event,
Congress made a point of adjourn-
ing half an hour on every February
22, to offer him their congratula-
tions. This was one of the features
of the day until 1796, when some of
the members "got mad" with him
for a short time and refused him
their public good wishes. Here are
a few of the remarks he had to sit
and listen to — a trying thing for a
man of modest, retiring disposition:
"Shall our hero's birthday pass un-
noticed? No! Let manifestations
of joy express the sense we have of
the blessings that arose upon
America on the day that gave

George Washington birth!" "That
great, that gloriously disinterested
man — long may he live, and late to
heaven remove !" "May the evening
of his life be attended with felicity
equal to the utility and glory of its
meridian!" He was even turned
into rhyme — a funny old song sung
at one of these banquets had these
words:

Americans, rejoice;

While songs employ the voice,

Let trumpets sound.
The thirteen stripes display
In flags and streamers gay,
'Tis Washington's birthday!

Let joy abound.

Fill the glass to the brink,
Washington's health we'll drink,

'Tis his birthday!
Glorious deeds he's done,
By him our cause is won —
Long live great Washington!

Huzza, huzza!

Imagine how they must have
shouted it out! Perhaps he was
carried away for once by the cheers
and applause and sang out "Huzza,
huzza!" with all the rest.

Shortly after one of these birth-
days there was another celebration
in his honor. In 1789 he was called
to New York from his home at beau-
tiful Mt. Vernon, to be inaugurated
as first President of the United
States. As he passed through the
states of Maryland, Delaware and
New Jersey to his destination,
gentlemen of these states joined his
train, so that he had the retinue of
a king when he reached Trenton,
New Jersey. There he was com-
pelled to stop under a mighty tri-
umphal arch erected at the entrance
of the town, and face a great crowd
of people, headed by three long
rows of matrons, young girls and
little ones, all in white with wreaths
on their heads, and carrying big
baskets of flowers which they
emptied beneath the feet of his
horse. (Poor fellow, I know he
wished they had been oats instead!)
Here Washington got more praises
and more songs and cheers — can't
you hear him saying when he got
home again, "Mrs. Washington, the
post of honor is the private sta-
tion!"

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length the sound of ap-
proaching footsteps was
heard.

The Papal Guards
presented arms, the at-
tendants entered,
opened ranks, and the
Holy Father appeared
in the doorway. He
was a handsome, well-
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in white from head to
foot, and his kindness,
simplicity and gentle-
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Advancing into the
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The boy at once attracted his at-
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to the story of his visit. Then,

PIUS X was the friend of little taking the lad's hand in his, he gave
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of the later years of his pontificate, visitors.

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February, 1922

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IN THE WORLD OF BOOKS

By Paul H. Richards

A LTHOUGH Canon Sheehan en- once the urge of the author's con-

Z\ joyed a good measure of viction that the misuse of the print-
J_ \, fame and success during his ing press is most serious, and that
lifetime, it seems that his fame and the dangers from bad books is ex-
influence are due to increase, these, treme. Even though we realize that
days, as events unfold the fullest his condemnation of novels and
meaning of the work he did for re- novel-reading is sweeping, we see,
ligion and, through his native land, too, the books against which he di-
for the world. The appearance of rected his eloquence. He strikes at
a volume of his sermons is a happy every nation of letters, — America,
token of this renewal of his benign England, France, Germany, Russia;
influence. As we look on the pho- in journalism, in scientific and ir-
tograph of him that adorns the religious books, in immoral fiction,
wrapper of Sermons, it seems as if he finds one of the most powerful
he again stood in the life before us causes of the decay of society,
ready to do his part in the great "Have you ever noticed how care-
world crisis and the extremity of fully the name of God is excluded
the land he loved so well. from every novel of the present

One of the revelations of this vol- day? It is never mentioned except
ume is his sermon "On Bad Books," as an oath. Have you ever seen the
followed by another "On Good beautiful Christian virtues of pa-
Reading." A footnote tells us that tience and purity and self-sacrifice
he was but a young priest on the and humility recommended? No!
English mission when he preached but anything that is low and vile
so strongly against bad books,— and grovelling and sensual. The
novels in particular, and that at the purest writer of fiction in this or
time he had no idea he would one any other century— Charles Dickens
day rank among the most success- —is now laughed at by every sensi-
ful and powerful novel-writers. He ble man and woman, for every sec-
divided writers into two classes, — ond page of his novels is a tribute
those who write for money and to the animal pleasures of eating
those who write because they must and drinking."

write. In regard to the second class Having said those and other
he reveals what is new to many of strong things, Canon Sheehan pur-
us, that writers who spread the sued his work by applying an anti-
poison and corruption of their dote and remedy in the fiction he
hearts and minds in letters are wrote himself. No one could say.
under a necessity of confessing or can ever say, that it was a pain-
these things; since they do not make ful duty or a penance to read the
use of Sacramental confession, they fiction he produced. The charm,
pour out their thoughts and imag- the fascination of plot and style and
ination to the harm of thousands, narrative were reinforced by the
We shall think of this assertion deeper charm of scholarship and
strongly if we happen to read the vision; so that, today, in the light
lastest of Mr. Edward J. O'Brien's of Ireland's renewed struggle for
annual volumes of "The Best Short freedom, we shall be moved to take
Stories of 1920"; for the opening up again, not only these collected
story, by a writer to whom the vol- sermons, but the novels in which
ume is dedicated with a prefatory are couched so many things pro-
eulogy, is one that can be inter- phetic, challenging, exalted,— things
preted in no other way than by which the young men and women
Canon Sheehan's outlook. coming after him have proved true.

If we turn at once to Canon If we expect in the paper "On
Sheehan's papers upon books, we Good Reading" to find a list of pop-
shall soon decide that they are in- ular novels and other works, we
deed sermons rather than essays, shall be disappointed. The good
We shall not look for the beauties reading which he has here in mind
of the author's style but feel at is theology, poured into such form
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as the works of Newman, Manning,
Faber, and Wiseman. He advises a
knowledge of the Doctors of the
Church, — St. Augustine, St. Thomas
Aquinas and others, — and if not the
actual works of these, at least their
content as interpreted by more pop-
ular writers:

"For example, you wish to study
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Eucharist! There are Cardinal
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Perhaps those readers who came
within the influence of Canon Shee-
han's writings and those who heard
his sermons took his advice on good
reading. Certainly much credit is
due to him for the literary as well
as the spiritual revival in Ireland.
Doubtless it was from study of
these sources of light that modern
Catholic writers both in England
and in Ireland derive their force
and clearness and power. Since
these Sermons were preached, many
novels have been written which the
preacher would commend. They
have certainly put the name of God
into novels, and pointed out exam-
ples of the virtues of patience, hu-
mility, purity, self-sacrifice. They
have touched life reverently, humor-
ously, hopefully; they have worked
out plots through Divine Provi-
dence, miracles, faith, martyrdom,
and the effects of these things in
literature have worked out in life,
giving us instances of heroism and
devotion equal to and greater than
the vision and dream of the novel-
writers. These writers have at-
tracted a reading public for their
work and have created a demand for
it. Criticism of new Catholic novels
should be based upon the thing
which they intend to do. Under-
standing of these novels presup-
poses at least a little of that pre-

liminary "Good Reading" on th'
readers' part, — the Scriptures, th;
writings of the saints and the doc,
tors of the Church. Canon Sheehai
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English writers, but these sugges'
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February, 192

The Third Order Forum

The HERALD is ever ready to welcome a new-
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more than the "glad hand" that it extends to the
latest arrival in the field— THE THIRD ORDER
FORUM. A publication of this kind has long since
proved itself a necessity and it was with heartfelt
"Deo Gratias!" that we greeted it when it did finally
make its modest bow to the publishing world. As
mentioned in our last issue, the FORUM is intended
for the use of the Reverend Directors and of all priests
interested in the spread of the Third Order of St.
Francis. It will have the combined support of all
the Franciscans and patrons of the Order through-
out the country. This fact ensures the continuation
of the high standard which the first number has set
for it. A glance at its table of contents, where we
find such contributors as Bishop Wehrle, 0. S. B.,
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Fr. Jerome Mileta, 0. M. C, will convince even the
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and best wishes for the future success of the
FORUM. Ad multos annos!

International Congress at Rome

The 26th International Eucharistic Congress will
be held at Rome, from the 25th to the 29th of May
next. For the organization of this Congress the Pope
has named a Roman Committee with the Vice Gerent
of Rome, Monsignor Palica, as President.

The Congress will be opened by Solemn Pontifical
Mass by the Pope in the Basilica of St. Peter. The
following Sunday, May 28th, will be a reception in
the Vatican for the delegates — the Pope will deliver
an address to them. The Congress will close with a
procession in the Vatican Basilica, at which the Pope
will carry the Blessed Sacrament.

Besides the Sessions of Studies for the general
public, solemn religious functions according to the
various Catholic rites will be celebrated in the Roman
Basilicas. A special ceremony will be held in the
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In the preparation of said Congress, the perma-
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Committee for Italy, whose President is Monsignor
Bartolomasi, Bishop of Trieste.

RESTING COMFORTABLY

(Continued from page 68)

You see, she considered me quite as wicked as her-
self. Then he was killed in an auto accident, witll
another crazy girl whom he took joy riding. Hi:i
death resurrected the whole case; and we three, thi!
girl of the movie kiosk, the girl of the fatal joy ride|
and myself of the summer resort, were the thre«|
graces that were his undoing, so said the news-J
papers.

"Fool that I was!" she continued. "How could I
do then what I wouldn't do now. But perhaps I lost
all the bad in the hospital. I think I began to change
from the day your wonderfully pious sister put youii
arbutus on Our — her Lady's altar, for the soul oil
some foolish girl. They prayed for me, those flow-t
ers," her voice went low and lower, and he suspecteci
she was sobbing. "I know they did, and now you!
know, too. I could never give you, Laurence, what]
your sister will give Fred Irvin. I have no fresh)
sweetness, any more than those dead blossoms. In
the morning I'll go away; then you can forget every-j
thing about me, except that I'll love you always."

Laurence wanted to say something, just what she'
didn't know; but she feared it was a rebuke, and she!
couldn't bear it just then. How hard he found it to]
keep pace with her down the road toward home. Flor-i
ence arose betimes next day to leave. Though sur-
prised, Laurence's mother said nothing; she thought!
perhaps this beautiful girl with her city airs would|
never care for a farm lad, and she was sorry for her
son. When Florence went into the parlor for her hat,
Laurence followed her. But she vanished with her
tiny bag, through the front door to his waiting Ford.
He bounced in to drive her to the train.

He took the car on a lonely road to the woods, then
switched off the magneto.

"Never mention that other man again," he said,
with stern lines in his brow. "He doesn't matter
now — or in the hereafter. Florence, I haven't much
to offer you," he confessed humbly, "only myself,
such as I am. But I'll work till I make a fortune
for you."

"You won't need to work hard, then," she chimed
in joyously, "for I've a fortune already, and we'll
just plant it and make it grow for — for —

"For our children, dearest," he threw her the
phrase, "if God sees fit to send us any."

A curious yokel on his way to town poked his head
into the Ford.

"Anybody hurt?" he queried.

"No, but somebody will be hurt if he doesn't cut
and run," threatened Laurence, good-naturedly.

"My heart was bad," chirped Florence, "but you'vi
made it good ; at least, I feel that way. Thank you,
Laurence."

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M. Burke; Richmond, Va. — Mr. Buudl
J. B. Fletcher; Mrs. Marv A. WaldrJ
Cinoinnti, Ohio — Marie Gleason; Mrs. I

For the conversion of a husband (5)
For the conversion of two young men (2)

For a wayward son (3). For the con- J. Murray; Toledo, Ohio — Mr Friedel

version of a brother. For the conversion M. Neuhausel; Oliver Imman Clevela),

of relatives. tor the conversion nf a Ohio — Miss Drew; Berea, Ohio Mar gait

brother and his family (2). For wayward La Velle; Warren, Ohio — Mrs Jarrl

children (4). For the conversion or a Flask; PintUay, Ohio— Thomas McMahCl

triend. For the conversion of a father. Indianapolis, Ind. — .Marie Holmann: TeiJ

For the grace of a good confession. For Haute, lad. — Sarah A. Ward; Evansvil,

additional number of communicants in a Ind Mr. Ottmann; Port Benjamin Hi

factory town. For reconciliation of rison, Ind. — Joseph S Smigoski' Chical

estranged brothers and sisters. For the HI. — Mr. Charles Werr; Mrs. Marv Xn.ti.-

grace to avoid the occasion of sin. For a Jeremiah O'Connor- J F Foley' Michj

vocation to the religious life. For the and Marv Burke; Mrs. J. HummVrt; M

happy choice of a state of life. For a non- M. E. Troutman; Joliet, HI. — Mrs. H. Gool

Catholic family. For the grace of final win; Oak Park, HI. — Patrick Curran; X.

perseverance. For a happy death (2). catur, HI. — Mrs. Margaret Walsh' La Sal

For a distressed mother. For peace with HI. — James Farrell; Waukegan, HI.— Mi,

neighbors. For a special intention (11). E. Bracken: Pittsfleld, HI. — Mrs M M'

For a very special intention (7). For health Kenna; St. Louis, Mo — M JaM

and happiness in the family (3). For a Josephine Offner; Miss Nelson; Anna lAe

son in serious trouble (3). For recovery mann; Magdalena Muettinger; C. Totsfj

of health (16). For an invalid husband Anna Weiss; Antoinette Schotten; Kath;

13). For an ailing sister (2). For recovery line Horras; Patrick Tracev Ida Thnma*
of sight. For a mute child. For relief
from convulsions. For cure from a goitre.

For cure from tonsilitis. For the cure Iowa — Mrs. Anna Sehoen; Port Dodg

of a deafmute child. For cure from Iowa — Bertrand L. Schilz; Kansas Cit

nervous and mental trouble (11). For cure Kan
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family (8). For recovery from a serious kee, Wis Eulalia Lenendella- Pond d

operation. For cure from paralysis. For Lac. Wis. — Mrs J J Trier' Nazianz Wi

relief from eye trouble (3). For a safe — Dr. F. O'Brien; He'ena, Mont Mrs .

delivery. For cure from lung trouble. For F. Driscoll: Tacoma, Wash. — Mr. J D M.
cure from rheumatism. For success in Cabe; Mount Vernon, Wash. — Mrs M. i
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To obtain a just inheritance (2). For sue- Mrs. Margaret Blim.
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(8). For the souls in Purgatorv (1?,). For

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SUMMARY OF INDULGENCES ak

OBITUARY

The charity of our readers is asked for
the following deceased readers of Pran-
ciscan Herald and friends of our missions :

Chicago, HI. — Rev. Sabastian Cebulla.
O. F. M.: New York City — Mrs. J. V.
Reilly; Margaret Fitzpatrick; Anna Negro;
Brooklyn, N. Y. — Mrs. Florence L. Mc-
Namara; Miss Dambeck; Mr. Ingram;
Mrs. Daniel Darmodv; Syracuse, N. Y. —
Mrs. A. Smtih; Catherine Frick; Auburn,
N. Y. — Mrs. A. Simon; Buffalo, N. Y. —
Mrs. M. Rowan; Mr. Silvaroli; James
Sawyer; Joseph Sawyer; Canastota, N. Y.
— William and Charles James; Elmira,
N. Y. — Johanna O'Connor; Canandaigma,
N. Y. — Denis McNamara: Woodcliff, IT. Y.
— Edwin J. Brickner; Jamaica, N. Y. —
Elizabeth Ibort; Newark, N. J. — Mr. Mc-
Donald; Mr. M. Gerber; Bayonne, N. J. —
Mrs. G. H. Haynor: Worcester, Mass. —
Michael J. Bergin; Webster, Mass. — Mrs.
Jos. Simcusky; New Bedford, Mass.
W. J. Smith; Pranklin, Mass. — Mrs. M. E.
Walsh; Pramingham, Mass. — Mrs. S.
O'Connor; Mrs. Julia Haves; WTiitinsville,
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gerald; West Ouincy, Mass. — Marv Me-
loni; Stratford, Conn. — Mrs. Nora McGary:
Mrs. Panda; Lakeville, Conn. — Andrew
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Patrick Gildes: Harold Dowd ; Dover, N. H.
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Martin; John O'Connor; Patrick McShea;
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Pa— William P. p.laii". John J. Blair;
Gloucester, Pa. — Joseph. Fred. William,
and James Pevean; Johnstown, Pa. — Marv
TBrien; Mr. Joseph Ruth; Anna Johnson;

Granted to the three Orders of St
Francis by a Priest of the Order
Friars Minor Conventual. Franciscar
Tertiaries hardly realize the almost un
told number of indulgences the Churcl
has deigned to grant them. They havt
not only the indulgences that from
time to time were bestowed on theij $.
own Order, but participate in all those
enjoyed by the First and Second Or-
ders, except some reserved especially
for persons living in the religious
state. Aspirations that take but
thought, a few Paters and Aves said
while Tertiaries are in a Franciscan
church or have a moment or two of
leisure in their daily tasks bring Ter
tiaries countless spiritual blessings,
solely because they have embraced the
easy Rule of St. Francis. Those who
are not familiar with these heavenly
treasures, will find them explicitly and
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FRANCISCAN HERALD

THIRD ORDER OF CALENDAR

1. BB. Eustochium and Viridiana, Wid-
ows of the II and III Orders.
(Plen. Ind.)
$1 Purification of the B. V. M.— (Gen.

Absolution — Plen. Ind.)
\ 3. BI. Matthew, Bishop and Confessor

of the I Order.
1 ' 4. St. Joseph of Leonissa, Confessor of
the I Order Capuchin. (Plen.
Ind.)
, 5. SS. Peter Baptist and Companions,
Martyrs of the I and III Orders.
(Plen. Ind.)
7. BB. Rizzerius, Giles, and Antony,

Confessors of the I Order.
il3. Bl. John, Martyr of the I Order.
'14. Bl. Jane of Valois, Widow of the III

Order.
. JL5. Bl. Andrew, Confessor of the I

Order.— (Plen. Ind.)
\ ji6. Bl. Philippa, Virgin of the II Order.
!l9. St. Conrad, Confessor of the III

Order.
JJO. Bl. Peter, Confessor of the I Order.
'22. St. Margaret of Cortona, Penitent
of the III Order. (Plen. Ind.)

25. Bl. Sebastian, Confessor of the I

Order.

26. Bl. Isabella, Virgin of the II Order.

(Plen. Ind.)
BL Bl. Antonia, Virgin of the II Order.
I' Besides the days indicated above, Ter-
I ;iaries can gain a Plenary Indulgence:

[' 1. Every Tuesday, if, after Confession
I and Holy Communion, they visit a
|l:hurch of the First or Second Order or
Jpf the Third Order Regular of St. Fran-
llns while the Bl. Sacrament is exposed
ljind there pray for the intention of the
l?ope. If Tertiaries live at a great dis-
tance from a Franciscan church, the
luisit may be made in their own parish

I "hurch.

II 2. Once every month, on any suitable
flay. Conditions: Confession, Commu-
lliion, visit to any church, and some

Drayers there for the intention of the
Pope.

3. On the day of the monthly meeting.
Conditions: Confession, Communion,
risit to any church, and some prayers

■ ;here for the intention of the Pope.

4. On the first Saturday of every
nonth. Conditions: Confession, Com-
nunion, some prayers for the intention
)f the Pope, and besides some prayers
n honor of the Immaculate Conception
)f the Bl. Virgin Mary.

General Absolution, also called In-
lulgenced Blessing, can be received by
Tertiaries on January 1 and 6. This
Absolution may be imparted to Terti-
»ries also in the confessional on the day
preceding these feasts or on the feasts
:hemselves, or on any day during the
week following.

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pense and we knew our friends did not ex-
pect this. Below we give a partial list of
the donors. As many of them requested
us not to publish their names, we are giving
merely the initials of all. Other lists will
be published in future issues of the
HERALD until all donations are acknowl-
edged.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ALABAMA — Bayou La Batre: F. B.;
Fruitdale: E. O. C: Mobile: J. B. W.,
A. M., C. V. B.; Whister: J. B. S.

COLORADO — Colorado Spring's: M. E.
McW.; Denver: J. O'X.

CONNECTICUT— Bridgeport: G. S., P.
C; Danbury: A. McS.; Falls Village:
M. A. W.; Greenwich: J. S., B. T.. M. C

A. H.; Hartford: A. M., T. B.; Meriden:

B. D. M.: New Havon: E. B., C. 'W., K. V.,
J. H.; New London: J. E. C. S. McM.,
K. D. X B., J. P. O'D., C. P. L.. lit. R.,
Staffordville : J. M., J. J. H.; Westville:
M. G. H.; Waterbury: P. X. T.

CANADA — Chatham: R. D., J. B. G..

C. H., E. C, E. P., O. r>.: Louisville, Ont.:
J. M.; Sterling 1 : J. J. P.; Walkersville : A.
D., M. II. O'M.; Windsor: B. H. B., E. C. P.,
J. B. P., A. J. N., E. D.. H. A.

CALIFORNIA— Alhambra: L. M. P.;
Berkeley: W. F. S.; Bakersfleld: A. M. D.:
Cupertino: A. M. S.J Crockett: K. K.;
Fruitvale: N. P.; Hollywood: J. W. DeM.,
H. H.; Los Angeles: C. J. K., A. H. C.

E. R„ E. V. Z.. C. MeC, M. S„ S. E. O. B.,

A. W., C. A. McC, F. J. A., A. M., A. W..
M. A. H., J. W. K., W. B., E. P. B„ N. H. K..

F. C, G. LaS., S. T., J. D. DeT.. N. T. M.,
J. S., B. McD., I. M.. A. B., B. K., C. R.,
J. R., G. T. S., M. A. M„ S. K.. F. O. T.,

B. L. V., W. J. B„ J. H. H.. K. K.,

E. B. T., A. E., E. N.; long Beach: O. E.
A.; Oakland: P. F., H. T., E. B., B. N.,

F. G., J. J. M.. F. J. P., A. B.; Pasadena:
T. G„ M. G., M. D., E. M. H.; Riverside:
P. E. M.; St. Helena: M. C; Sacramento:

C. F. F., L. J. A.; San Diego: P. M.: San
Louis Ohispo: B. M.; San Mateo: P. O'H. ;
San Francisco: J. H., A. B. H., M. E. W.,
A. McC, M. H.. A. H.. N. H.. C. K. B.,
M. H., D. S. F., F. S.. F. T., M. K.. B. J. G.,

D. R., J. A. C., P. J. S.. M. F., W. J. F.,
F. S., J. A., P. M.. C. S. C, M. D.. Mrs. B.,
A. D„ M. C. C. H. K„ P. J. H., N. F. B.,
M. R.. N. Mc B., R. D. C, M. C. A.,
J. E. S.. C. J.. S. J. R., C. H.. M. E. C,
H. O., D. M.. K. B., A. Mel., R. A. McC
J. T. W.. A. M. C.. B. B., E. B.. E. D..

E. J. T„ D. B., C. G., A. V., E. J.. M. H.,
R. T.. R. D.. C. B.. V. J. S.. E. H.,

A. McB., W. K.: Stockton: M. S.: Santa
Barbara: M. B. M.: Visalta: S. A.; Vallejo:
M. P., J. C. W. .1. C.

DELAWARE— Bridgeville : J. E. ON.;
Hockessin: W. M.; Wilmington: M. K..
W. B. J. U., J. B., M. F., A. Q., E. C. K.,

B. F.. C. B.

FLORIDA — Fensacola: J. J. R., W. J. H.

GEORGIA — Athens: M. H.

ILLINOIS — Amboy: M. B.. A. E.: At-
kinson: E. <\: Aviston: E. G. ; Beecher:
J. J. R.; Belleville: F. R., S. S.; Blooming-
ton: B. S., J. C, J. H. C, J. F. D.. P. J. C.
M. G. B.; Bradford: A. G. F.; Breese:
J. V. H.; Berwyn: C. B.; Belvidere: P. S.;
Carlyle: B. D.. H. K.; Champaigne: J. E.
G.: Carrolton: C. K.. M. P. C; Chicago
Heights: M. E. F.; Chicago: P. S., H. R.,
P. J. M., B. B.. J. B., M. Mc, J. E.,
J. B., P. R.. I. M. B., M. J. R., T. P. D..
B. B., E. F.. M. Z., M. B., E. M„ R. W. S.,
J. T. B.. J. F. M., M. T., E. W., M. S.. M. C,
M. G., A. M. A.. C. O'N., E. A. T.. F. I..
J. H., M. T.. M. H., M. S. H.. J. Mc,
N. R., E. O. K., C. M„ J. V., E. M. B.,
M. S., J. C. M. B., C. A.. J. M., D. McD..
P. J. B., M. A., P. F. B.. R. B., J. A. B.,
M. S., T. B. C, P. N. F., T. B. O., J. P. D.,
M. K., F. G.. B. K., H. T.. J. L„ M. G.,
M. C, H. C. B. P.. M. J. W., F. K.,
A. W. S., P. W., J. H. D., E. S., S. McD.,
M. G., C. E.. F. J. H., M. S., G. I. P..
J. W., C. S., M. C., K. M., M. M., G. H.,
A. B., M. M. B., A. C., M. B.. M. H.,
J. N., J. K., A. B., J. J. D., P. A., J. M.,
T. J. P., J. W. T., F. B„ J. P. G., M. P. C,

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F. H. M., M. Z„ G. D. C, M. B„ T. J. F..
J. H. C, H. R., C. M. W.. J. H., J. Q..
N. B. D., M. C. D., A. L., B. P., C. A.,
C. M., W. C, M. M., T. E., P. K., J. B.,
P. L., M. McL., B. II. H., A. B., A. H.,
M. G., M. A., J. A. M„ .1. S., M. J., W„
C. S., J. J. K.. XL McG., K. B., E. S.,
T. F., F. R., E. M. K., A. S., M. D., N. B.,
J. D„ A. L., J. J. McN.. E. McC, F. H.,
A. T.. L. B„ G. K„ R. O'C, A. D„ E. M.,

C. D.. C. L„ W. H.. T. W., T. S., M. M.,
T. J. McN.. L. C. L. S„ C. S., M. H. S.,
J. K.. B. O., A. S., M. D. P.. C. F..

D. U H.. L. F., A. B.. P. K., P. I.,
II. M. U-. ■'■ K, M. McC. E. S.. L. G..
M. C, P. J. L.. B. D., C. M.. XI. R.. F. K.,
A. Cm A. D.. J. C, C. D. L., R O. C G. L.,
K. H. F., K. M., A. M., M H , F. F., J. H..
R. V., J. S., .1. a., J. M„ J. H.. A. L.,
H. G. MUX., C. L., C. B., K. C., E. OR.,

A. M., E. H., F. S. K., B. M., M. J. ('.,
K. Cm E- B-. S. B. R., E. S., M. .J. A.,
M. B.. B. S., E. C, N. B., J. F. O'C.
M. R., M. M. S., F. J. T., M. O. N.. P. J. R.,
P. S„ R. F, J. L., M. M., B. G., B. B.,
F. R., H. J. P., T. A., M. D„ H. F„

B. H., L. S., J. A., J. <%, T. R.. E. M.,
F. D., L. M., J. J. B., k. M., F. J. C.
F. M. V., M. J.. C. R. S., P. A.. J. B.,
M. C, S. D., J. -S., XL N., M. M.. R. R.,
A. M„ J. F , W. L., R. R., S. V., H. J. B„

C. P., M. M., J. A. Mm E. C. M. C. C,

E. Z., J. J. O'N., E. N., L. H.. J. P. S.,
M. J. M., J. V. C, M. F.. S. M., M. L. G.,
C. H., N. J. C. P. K., M. M. D., A. L..
H. J. B., S. J. B., J. B., H. N„ A. N.,
N. N., K. K., C. E. S., P. W. D., C. H.,

F. J. W., H. M. C, A. L„ M. D., J. K.,
M. K. S., C. G., B. Q.. M. L., P. E. C.
M. W., C. S. H.. M. L. K., C. K., A. B.,
M. R., C O'D., E. D„ M. F., T. L. M.,
M. B. Z., M. W.. A. C, A. S.. M. M..
F. L., M. D., M. B., E. M„ M. H., J. T.,
W. O'C. L. W„ K. M„ E. F., C. B.. C. H„

C. J. H., E. K., A. O'D., A. M. V.. M. A. B.,
H. B. J., B. B., M. F., M. P. M., M. Y„
W. G., M. B., H. S., I. H., G. H. M.. M.,
A. P., C. L., R. T., J. H., E. C; Collins-
ville: L. M., M. M., J. S. McC; Clifton:
K. ON.; Chester: J. W.J Duquoin: A. S.,

A. E.; Deerfield: D. E. G.; Decatur:
J. B. H.; Desplains: M. O'D.; Evergreen:
P. M.; Eningiiam: H. P.; East St. Louis:

D. H„ E. J. W.. B. S., A. L., M. S.;
Eldorado: S. A. XL; Trowbridge: E. McG.;
Freeport: A. K.. E. A. B.: Galena: I. M.;
Green view: T. C, C. L.; Gillespie: L. A. G.,
C. C: Highland Park: M. D„ N. G., A. McC,

B. W„ C S.; Hinsdale: E. T.; Jersey-
ville: C. T.; Joliet: L. S., T. F.. J. E.,
H. K., G. W. G., H. J. M., F. E. L„ E. C,
J. R., A. L., F. I., A. B„ E. B., J. K.,
M. T., M. D.; Keniiworth: M. K.; Kan-
kakee: A. S. L.; Lake Porest: C. A. R.,
A. N., A. XV.; LaSalle: M. H., V. M. D.;
Litchfield: S. F. H.; LaGrange: R. J.,

A. B. ; Xiockport: L. I-.: Loving-ton: F. L.;
Mendota: R. D. H., J. P. S.; Oak Porest:

F. F.; Oak Park: P. D., M. E. B.. T. R.,
R. J. P., B. A. L., E. J. S„ M. L.. M. L.:
Ottawa: A T., J. T. G., J. D.; Pawnee:
J. R. H., A. L.; Peru: R. F. D., A. K.,
H. J. M.; Prairie Du Rochere: K. G.,

C. C; Piper City: R. E. V. S.; Paris: M. M.;
Fana: R. J. P. M.. S. D.; Quincy: S. C,
W. H. M., F. McM.. H. B.. S; F.. M. B.,
J. S., C E. C, E. S., .7. C. T.. T. A. M.;
Bochelle: V. P. C; Ridgway: S. H. K.,
P. P.; Bock Island: N. S.; Bockford: C. R.,
O. R.; Springfield: H. E.. M. M., M. H.,
O. II.. A. E. C, R. K., .1. B., J. K. F..

B. S. G.. J. L-. A. D.; Salem: L. D.: Sainte
Marie: P P.. R. J. V.; South Chicago:
.1 C, J. H .; Siegel: H. H .: St. Charles:
■T. S.; Techny: A. McD., C, K.; Trenton:
B. C. R.; Teutopolis: C. S., G. A., M. B.;
Warren: E. A.; Wilmington: J. J. M.;
Wheat on: R. R.; Waukegan: M. H., C. B.;
Wilmette: B. W. L., L. H.

INDIANA — Crown Point: M. K, E. J. E.,
XI. K.; Decatur: C. J. V.. C. R., B. XI.;
Dyer: E. B. K.. A. F. B. ; Evansville:
XI. XI., 1'. B.; Port Wayne: H. A. W„ A. XI.,
<:. S., J. A. R., B. C, A. V„ C J. R„
S. L. N., A. K., H. J. XI., G. E. XI.. XI. B„
A. F. M„ J. C, F. A. B„ A. XI. P.. T. H.,

G. N., L. F. S., J. J. K.; Gary: E. D.;
Huntington: J. P. McN.; Hobart: G. T.;
Indianapolis: XI. G , W. .1 K., XL S„ A. K..
J. J., F. W. T., F. M., G. S., F. M.,
M, K., R. H., A. C, J. 11.. A, I'. G. M.,
XI. S. M., J. XI.; Kentland: i '. <".; Lafay-
ette: A. B„ C. K. K.; LaPorte: M. E.,

A. J. L.; Logansport: M. R. S. M., V. S..
H. S., J. G.. J. J. T.; Michigan City: J. It.;
Mishawaka: T. V. H.. ,J. I. S.. P. V . XI. S„
M. D„ H. B.; North Vernon: C. R.; E. E.,
G. M.; New Carlisle: 8. XL; New Albany:
R. L.. A. H.; North Judson: XI. McN.;
Peru: E. XI., R. M. N.; Pierceton: XI. F. B.;
Plymouth: L. E. P., P. K; Bensselaer:
A. C. ; Bichmond: E. XI.; South Bend:
J. B„ G. W. K., J. G., C. D., A. S.,

C. M. W„ G. P.; Terre Haute: G. H„ A. K.,
M. E„ J. W.; Tipton: H. V.; Valparaiso:
J. B.; Vlncennes: W. H. E.. C. H ; Wa-
basha: D. X.; Wanatah: F. P.

IOWA — Alta Vista: F. S.; Buck Grove:
H. H.; Bernard: J. T.; Belleville: .1. K.;
Clutier: XI. H., J. V. R.; Clinton: XI. S.
T. C; Carroll: XI. L. C; Cascade: N. F.;
Cedar Bapids: J. L. P., A. T.; Dyersville:
H. B. W., H. G., J. B. G„ C. L.; Daven-
port: F. H. B„ F. K., L. G., E. XlcB.,
S. McD., E. J. D., V. F. H., A. XI., U. D.;
Dubuque: A. K.. S. F. S., E. S„ A. \V„
C N.; Dunlap: C S.; Earllng: J. J. U;
Parley: J. P. S.; Hampton: H. B. W.;
Kills: A. L. J.; Harpers Perry: T. W. XI.;
Xalona: G. A. E.: Lansing: P. Z. ; Man-
viUe: J. L„ P. J. D.; Nevada: J. \\\; New
Albin: S. F.; New Hampton: H. XI. K.;
Oxford, H. P. XV. ; Pocahontas: B. S.;
Prairieburg: P. S.; Bock Falls: C. H. XI.;
Kemsen: J. H. A.; Waverly: C. A. F.,
L. F. ; Waterloo: J. C.

KENTUCKY— Bellview: M. M.; Cold
Springs: J. S.; Covington: P. XI., G. A.,
N. K., J. L„ J. B. H., A. XI. H„ E. XL,
C Z., H. R.; Dayton: F. G., XL G.; Le-
banon: A. W.; Louisville: J. W. K.,
J. V. B., S. T. O., W. S„ J. S„ E. V. G.,
F. J. B., G. S., G. B., M. C. E., M. E. C,
F. S„ G. B„ J. P., M. G. C. B„ F. E. B.,
A. S. D.; Newport: G. E., J. R., E. B.,
J. S„ J. A. C'.i Owensboro: J. J. D., A. T.;
Paris: A H.; Springfield: E. T.

KANSAS — Ellinwood: H. E. 11.; Kansas
City: F. S. G., R. J. T„ M. C, C. J. S.,
J. S. C, D. Wm L. C; Xlngham: L. P.,
J XIcK.; Leavenworth: A. F. H„ F. B.,
M. McN., M. S.; Selden: J. G.; Willowdale:
P. J.

LOUISIANA— Algiers: H. E., L. F. S.;
Abbeyville: R. P.; Buttany: F. L. S.; Cov-
ington: A. E.; Pranklin: C K., O. A.;
Gretna: G. <> ; Houma: L. XL, C B.;
Kalpan: J. F. A.; Morganza: P. S.; New
Iberia: L. C; New Orleans: F. V. J.,
W. C, E. J., S. M., M. M., M. J. E„ C. J. H„

D. S. J., F. A. W., J. C. D., T. B., J. W. B„
F. P., F. H. D„ H. M., E. S., E. O. T„

E. D. H„ P. E. S., N. Y. M., C. L. J.,
L. P., J. D., J. A. F„ A. F„ J. M„ P. A. C,
V. C. L., L. M., L. C, L. J. T„ F. C.
D. D., H. Z., W. L„ A. G„ J. V., M. C.

F. O., >. A. S., Mrs. G„ T. C, J. T. M„
F. M., B. E. K., E. H.; Opelousas: I. H.,
A. P.; Port AUen: E. L.; Beserve: T. F.;
Westwego: L. T.

MASSACHUSETTS — Auburn: S. N. ; At-
tleboro: L. D.; Ayer: M. R., S. E. D.; An-
dover: J. H.; Atlantic: E. F. XIcP.. XL
McC; Boston: J. F. T.. N. A.. J. XL E.,
J. J. C, K. J. H., C. C, E. XI XL,
F. H. McC, R. E., M. E. F„ E. C. F.,
N. C. XL, A. D.. C. M.. A. H„ A. P..
H. J. D.. J. G., M. C, M. K., B. L,.,
M. A. O'N., C M., J. J. P.. XL \V., B. .1 .
I. .Mci'.. B. S., J. XL; Blackstone: J. K.,
M. R„ J. T„ J. J. R.; Brookllne: B. J.;
Brighton: XL F., T. G., A. McK.; Beverly:
E. MCC, E. W. McC, A. McN., A. F. C,
J. S.; Cambridge: S. D., F. F„ XL F. B.,
J O.; Clinton: XL E, McG.; Chelsea:
L. XL; Cherry Valley: D. J. McD.; Dorches-
ter: XI. T. B., D. G. C, P. O.'C, S. F. McL.,
J. A. H., J. J. XlcG ; East Cambridge:
W. M., J. L.; East Dedham: XL XlcG., E. T.;
Pitchburg: XL XL XL. .1 F . ; Pramingham:
XL F. K., XI. XL; Pall Biver: P. H., E. XI. F.,
XI. K., XL Cm J- A. N.. .1. O.. T. M. L.,
J. McN., E. N„ E. A. \V„ D. M., XL A. F.,
XL J. C, T. B., E. F. D., C T. B., D. L...
M. O., N. J. R.. W. B.. J. S., J. N.,
W. H. P.; Gloucester: F. L. P., A. G. T„
B D., M. H., G. H. T.. Housatonlc: XI P.;
Hudson: A. B.. C. C; Hyde Park: J. O.;
Jamaica Plains: R. E., B. XlcD., XL E. H.;

Leominster: J. S., P. XL: Lowell: .1
Medford: A. C, XL P., XI. E. nil. G.
Xliss J.; Mattapan: M. II.. C. II , Maiden ,
T. C, J. F., XL K.; Maynard: I. XI .; Mill' '
vale: F. S.; Marblehead: J. R„ .1 \\ c.
A. S. H.; New Bedford: T. XL. K XL
G. XL V., P. S., J. .1. S., J. P. XL. XL C. C
J. T. F„ J. A. P.; Norwood: A. T.
M. H. ; Newton: XL C. 1" ; Provincetown;
XI. S. XL; Rockland: I. \V. S.. A L.
Bandolph: K. P. R.. D. P. XIcC, F H. ■
XL XI.; Beadville: E. J. G.; Boxbury
XL XL. C. C. G., XL II., C. C„ J. P., C "
Butland: W. I . I:., XL L. U; Boslindale
XV. E. G., C. MacD.; Bockland: J. G„ G.
Salem: W. H. A., A. R, C. C. XL E.
T. H. F, XL A. J., J. XI ; Springfield: I S.
K. C XL, C. XL McM.; SomervUle
E. G. B„ J. J. XL, XL E. F., J. D., C. J. a'
XL T. B.. H. J.; Southbridge: E. XL XI.
Southboro: XL C; Stoughton: XL A. C.
M. E. R., K. J. B., N. XI i; .; Taunton)
C P., C. B., XL E. S., XL L.; Upton: S.
Watertown: I. D., A. K. F.; Whitings,
ville: J. K ; Waltbam: \V. H. ('., \V.
XL A. K. li. XL; Weymouth: B. D ; West-
boro: XL I:.; Westpoint: XL E. K ; Wen
Quincy: XL D.; Webster: T. W.; Wobum |
J. B.; Worcester: I. i;„ XV. C. J. K Xlc^fcl
J. B„ V. P.; White Valley: J. X".

MISSISSIPPI— Bay St. Louis: S, E.

MICHIGAN — CadUlac: T. L; Detroit I

XL C. N.. H. H. L„ G. J. D., H. R., J. K
L. K., E. S.. A. F. L., L. R., L. K.
J. E. C, F. J. E., A. M.. J. McD., P.. B-j

E. J. H., H. A. C, W. C, G. XL
A. C L., XL XL, E. X - ., XL XL. XL Dt,1
W. S. A., F. C B„ C. XL, K. XIcK., G. F./

F. J. E„ A. T.. L. P. S., P. XV.. R. J„
C. XV., K. S.. J. C M„ F. W„ XL D«i|
Dowagiac: C. B. S. R., XL L. ; Dollar Bay:
P. S., XL XL, P. 1^.; Emmett: F. K.. J. M.J
Grand Bapids: A. J. E„ L. E. S., I). R.,.
Mrs. S., XV. XIcO., E. S., E, W„ I. ■
Grosse Point: J. S.; Hancock: J. H. B.J L
Houghton: K. V„ A. D., L. XL; HubbeU: I
J. L.J Ishpeming: J. McG.; Irouwood:
J. J. P., H. C, C. H.; Jackson: J J C;
Ludington: E. P.; Lennox: p. D., C. E.;
Saginaw: F. J. B„ J. H.. XL J. T., A. A. L.,
A. XV., G. S.; Muskegon: XV. G. K.; Owosso:
M. E. O. C; Pinckney: E. P.; Petoskey:
M. J. K.; Pontiac: .1 L. XL; Port Huron:
V. A. T., G. XL XV: Bochester: XL F.i
Ubly: XL XV.. L. L. ; Vulcan: T. F. T.

MARYLAND— Baltimore: A. S., H. R,,
Mrs. P., B. B., C XIcH.. A. B.. i I .,
1'. XL. A. F., F. T. S., A. S., S. P., N, ■
A. V., S. E., J. K.. T. S. J., J. C. E P. ■
M. G.. F. A. C. T. XL. S. J.. J. P., M. S.. K. E.
K.. N. D„ J. F. H.. K. P. W., J. P. 11 . E ■
Catonsville: C. D. XL. Dr. XL, A. R,
A. G. S.; Cordova: C. I 11.: Cumberland:
M. K. G., N. XV.; Govans: A. F.; Wash-
ington, D. C: H. S. IL. M. E XKXI.,
XV. R. D„ E. R., XL L. L., W. A. \\'.,
J. T. C, J. N. N„ S. J. G„ F. B.. J. 3. P..J
K. N .. XL A. F.. C. D. G„ J. J. L.. XI ■
L. C. T., XL F.. XV. E. J.. B. H„ J. T. G,|
R. ]■•., \V. F. R.. XL T., XL T„ M. E. J„l

A. G.

MINNESOTA — Annandale : XL Wl
Brewster: S. B.: Buhl: W. XIcK; Cale-1
donia: T. C, T. I j. I).. H. H.: Chaska:
.1. A. K.; Chisholm: G. R.; Cold Springs:
C. P. P.; Delano: A. S : Parmington: G. \V.;
Faribault: W. XL G.; GracevUle: XL 1).;
Harmony: E. XL. E. McC . Melrose: T. H.; 1
Mankato: P. S; Minneapolis: XL A. B„
H. G. D., L. G. K, W. C. S„ J. O. G,,
C. P. S., A. J. N., F. XV., XL K.. R. Sj
XL Cm P. J., R- J- H. G., F. S. M.,
J. \V. II. . F. E. <;.. E. L., J. A. H,
W. II. F., F. .1. D. ; Northfleld: L. I. II.,
I. P. F. H.: Bed Wing: J. F„ E. \V. ; St.
James: S. X : St. Paul: K. D. G„ T. F. C,
R. L„ H. J. S.. M. A., E. P. S.. H. K» ]

B. F., G. K., N. A. T., J. D., XL S.,
G. F. K., A. M., S. B„ G. J. H.. S. W„ i

C. B. M., M. G„ E. S., C. E., C B, !
M. L. D., L. P. R., J. C. N„ M. OB.,
E. C. M. V., B. K, J. P. C, P. J XlcG.,
M. P., H. E. McG., E. G., W. J. H., L. W»
J. J., F. A. XL. A. XL T.. XL E. M.,

D. E. H., J. A. R.; Stillwater: XV. F J i
Shakopee: XL XL, J. H. K. ; Winona: J P. S.,

'ebruary, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

t. J., M. A., F. S.. F. P., C. P. S., C. W. C,
1. S.; Webster: C. S.

MISSOURI — Anglum: L. I">. ; Cape

iirardeau: C. W. B. ; Florisant: B. H. ;

'ergTiBon: H. G.; Kansas City: O. F. L.,

'. O. M., L. E. O.. M. C, M. C, W. J. S..

I". P. C M. B. C; Maryville: S. S. F.;

(verland: F. H.; Perry ville: V. T.; St.

f.onis: M. C, J. M., C. K„ G. Q„ J. H. K.,

L J.. M. M., J. H., W. B. A., L. C. S.,

L M., M. B., D. A. S., M. K„ A. B.,

I. R., G. B., C. H., C. V., J. R., J. M.,

|i. H., J. R. P., M. W., B. G., G. D.,

. S. B., L. A. S.. M. B., B. M., L. E. Q.,

\ S., C. I. B., M. D., D. G. H., A. K.,

. C. S., H. S., D. McA., M. E., O. W.,

M. C, C. B„ J. S., L. C, E M. C,

F. S., A. B„ J. S„ A. M„ F. M.,

E. M., C. C, K. H., M. K., O. B„

E. R., J. B. A., M. W., L. Z.. F. S..

W., T. R., J. W. L., J. J. K. ; St.

tenevieve: M. D. L., J. A.; St. Joseph:

R., C. R. B.: Tipton: E. F.; Union:

.; Washington: H. J. A., L. G., F. S.

J' NEW HAMPSHIRE — Concord: J. F. T.;

■aconia: I.. L. P..; Franklin: J. L. A. F. ;

lanchester: J. O., C. J. McL., H. E. H.,
fiTj. C. X. H., S. H. H., B. L„ M. McA.,

. R., M. E. M.; Newmarket: C. G., A. K.

I NEW JERSEY — Atlantic City: Mrs. W.;
ilayonne: B. F., E. B., M. A., J. B., E. K.,
I. R.; Clifton: P. M. McG.; Camden: A. C.
I. McH., J. H. M., A. McK.; Oumont:
L T. N.; East Orange: C. R.; Englewood:
I. A. L.; Freehold: L. K. ; Gloucester City:
I. McH.; Hoboken: M. II: Harrison:
L D., D. U. A., L. F.; Johnson: M. K.;
lersey City: E. B., M. McH., J. A. L.,
I. C, A. T. S., L. W., E. C, M. K.. H. H.,
L S., M. H., M. P., M. S., P. J. B., L. B„
L C. S., M. M., M. L., M. F.. R. O'N.,
'. D.. N. H., M. M., A. C, M. D. ; Kearney:
'. R.; Iiyndhurst: E. H., R. R. ; New
Irunswick: S. M. H.; Newark: J. C,
!. McC, A. B., H. C, Mrs. G., W. W.,
!. T. R., E. J. O'B., C. B., B. D., W. R.,
I. R. G., S. C, A. M.. M. H.; Orange:

I. H. S., J. B. D.; Fassaic: J. A. H.,
'. J. C; Ramsay: B. W., C. L.: Trenton:
:. W„ M. A., F. O. D„ Mrs. D.. J. P.,
.. R., G. J. M.; Wildwood: N. J. G.

NEBRASKA — Cambridge: J. C. M.;
ITest Foint: W. G.; Humphrey: J. B.,
. N.; Omaha: S. E. C, J. A. M., T. A. B.,
. F. H., M. M., C. B.; Wahoo: J. K.

, NEW YORK — Amsterdam: J. C ; Al-
[any: N. S., J. J. McC, J. A. H., E. F. K.,
|[. A. D.. R. A. H., E. H„ J. T. P.;
i.uburn: J. S. McC, M. D„ J. O'C, M. C,
|. McG., F. W. S.; Baldwin: M. B.; Brigh-
|on: A. T.; Brooklyn: K. E. M., F. R.,

II. R. S. W. C S., D. T., A. M. M. C,
II. R., J. E. P., Mrs. M., J. D., A. O.,

S„ C. B. R., S. C, M. A. M„ M. G.,
C, N. G., F. C. P., T. F., H. B.. C. M.,

McK., R. K., M. K., E. S„ M. C

R., F. N. H., T. S„ J. J. N., M. F.,
I. E., R. J. E., J. M„ J. I., C. R.. J. T. C ,
.. G., C. H., I. I. S., L. J K., R. F.,
>. K., C. A., P. S., J. M., K. D., M. M.,
'. T., F. J. E.. K. F.. J. S., A. B. R„
, M. S., M. J. M., J. M., C. H., T R
I. T., M. R„ F. F.. M. M. "
I M., M. L., J. F. F., C. C,
I S„ B. D., K. W., N. M., W.
. K., M. M., M. K., G. F., A. B. B
t. M. G., J. C. S.. H. B„ K. H., E. M. E„
I B., M. F., E. F., W. B. S., J. G„ I D
V. K., M. M., H. E. W., M. T. ON
.. C, E. H.. A. R. V., R. A. D.; Bing-
amton: M. H., G. E. D., M. C a « a?
'. F., E. C, M. M., M. S., K. F
V. J. S., A. D„ G. F.. K. M.,

3. S., E. T. C, R. S., M. C.

>., J. S., G. F. C, A. H., J. A.. J. H.;
• P. M., A. L., C. G., J. H. S., M. N. B.,
I. !v. A. H.. H. B.: Beaver Kill: L. C S.-
Ballicoon: C M., E. B.; Conesus: D M ■

■ roton Falls: T. J. D., T' F. Q.; Clyde:

■ . M. P.; Canandaigua: M. C. F. ; Cohoes:
If; 9- : E llenvi:ie: M. O ; Eniicott: A. W. ■
f.lmira: G. R., I. B. M.; Flushing: F K •
I reeport: J. o. D., C F. B.; Gainesville;

■ - M.; Glenwood landing: C P.; Glen
l|.ove: E. M.; Geneva: W. A. S.. E. M.;
l^lendale: R. W.; Great Kills: W. J. G.;
I f 6 ^ 1 ^ 11 M ' J - s - A - c - C: Hewlett:
HI. R.: Honeoye: L. H.: Hicksville: Mrs G ;

|Iem_ock: F. M.; Ithaca: T. M., M V'

Mrs

S.,
C,

M. S.,

Buffalo:

?. M. K.,
L,., F. N..

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Jamaica: A. N.J Jamestown: T. T.J Kings
Park: M. \V. ; Lancaster: J. P. G.. L. K.,
L. B., M. M.; Lockport: F. M. B.. K. E. F.,
G. B., M. G. D„ M. F., F. it. M.J long:
Island City: W. E.; Lima: W. J. N.j Mld-
dletown: J. S., N. T., M. L.; Medina:

B. McG., J. W., M. R.; Mechanics ville :
J. D.; Maspeth: J. S., M. K.J Mount Vernon:
W. H. W.; Millerton: K. G.; Newark:
E. L. B., M. G.: Newburgh: A. M., J. D.;
New York City: M. S., J. G., T. D., J. S. E.,
J. S. D., M. R. S. D., H. C, C. F. R. S.,
H. D., K. K., J. McC, A. B., M. G, E. L.,
M. O'C., J. M., K. H., C. D., O. C. S.,
E. G. M., E. L., M. H. W., M. M.. M M.,
M. F. Y., A. D.. L. B., P. IC, Mrs. C,
M. M., A. T., R. C, F. & ML M. "W.,
H. G., E. B., M. S.. R. O. C. B. N., M. K.,
M. L., J. B„ V. M., R D., J. & E. B.,
P. M., B. B., T. C, C. D., V. P., L. II.,
M. H„ E. B„ M. M„ Mrs. C, M. F.,
M. M., O. F„ M. A. F., E. O., N. J. R„

C. B., T. E. H., A. B., R. McC, L. R.,
J. M., M. F., M. D„ M. R„ M. B.. A. M. L„
Mrs. W., A. M., Mrs. C, C. E.. M. E. T.,
J. C. V., A. C, B. K., C. B., D. P., D. B.
& M., J. J. B„ C. B.. M. J. B., K T.,
M. C, M. B., G. H., C. P., A. F., E. W.,
W. S„ C. R„ E. G., M. K., P. N., L,. F. G.,
P. W., M. \V., J. J. K., M. C„ P. S., J. B.,
O. T., J. E., J. P. S., N. F. N.. J. F. H.,
M. T., M. C, W. P., H. P., M. R., N. L.,
T. G., J. McC, C. Q., B. J. G., M. McA.,
M. S., E. K., B. N., M. McG., D. O. G.,
N. H., A. C, J. V., M. W„ J. A. S., M. O'L,.,
M. K., C. R., J. R., B. S„ N. K.. M. S.,
N. R., S. E. T., J. F. C, C. B., M. McG.,
T. McG., C. E. S., M. B., M. C; Niagara
Palls: T. OH., J. S., F. & G, M. D.,
G. H. T.; New Brighton: G. R. T.; New
Rochelle: M. K.. M. G.. B. A. P., M. K.,
P. McC, F. L,., M. J., H. 8.. E. H.; Ossin-
lng: M. D.J Oneida: G. H.; Foughkeepsie:
E. K„ G. E. T. S., C A. K. ; Perkinsville:
J. "W\; Peekskill: M. H. G.; Portageville:
M. B.; Port Richmond: A. IC, J. H., M. I.;
Ruby: L. P.: Rosebank: D. M., C. R.;
Roosevelt: M. W.J Rochester: J. J. B.,
J. S., J. T., M. A. H., C. F. K., A. H. G„
A. K., A. W., C. J. A., L. S., J. F. D., E. R.,
W. B., M. D., H. F.. C. M.. M. K.. Mis. S.,
P. H. L., J. J. S., J. W. L., H. K., J. M.,

E. W.J Rome: C. M.; Rensselaer: J. B.,
C B., M. J. L.: Riverhead: E. E. F. ;
Snyder: G. 8.; Syracuse: .!. C, E. D. M.,
M. S., F. S.. A. H., J. J. D., G. L„ B. A.,

F. M., B. M., J. M., H. L., J. A., F. A. B.,
M. C, E. J. F., J. C, J. S„ P. R., B. R.,
M. R„ W. R., H. E. G., D. F. L,.. A. M. D.;
Seneca Castle: D. de L. ; Staten Island:
Mrs. McL.; Seneca Fall!?: C. P., T. J. C;
ShortsviUe: W. M. C; Salem: C. A. R.;
Schuylersville: M. B., C E. H.; South
Woodhaven: H. C. D. ; Somerset: L. L.;
Schenectady: C. A. B„ C I!.. C. P., X. J.;
Tottenville: B. J.; Troy: C. P.. M. M.,
J. K. \V.. A. M., M. A. S., M. N., G. J. B.,
C. M. C, C. K.; Utica: I>. I •.. II. W.,
R. F. W., G. H. P., M. F.. J. V. E.; Water-
loo: E. D.; Warsaw: M. D.; Williams-
bridge: E D.; Woodhaven: M. U, C. K.,
J. V.; Whltesboro: M. R. S. H.: Whitehall:
M. D.; Webster: E. K. ; Yonkers: M. W.

OHIO — Akron: J. H. W., B. P.; Bellaire:
J. P.; Berea: M. J. McD., D. C. W„ D. M. C,
M. McA., M. M., .1. V.; Cincinnati: M. .1. S .
CJ. W., S. P. S. F., J. O. W., A. B„ C. W..

A. P., A. B., J. W., M. K., F. 10. I'.. M. C, K.
E., W. R., L. S., M. O., H S., J. S., A. L.,
W. R„ L. S., M. O., H. S.. J. S., A. P..
F. J. H„ J. S., M. K.. A. S., V. C.. E. J. B.,
J. V., L. G. S„ J. B., C. i:.. I'. M., N. B.,
M. P., M. F., J. R„ M. V., M. C, C N„

E. S„ B. B„ M. H.. T. D.; Custer: J. D.;
Cleveland: R. P., A. J., J. J, K.. S. T.,
I'. S. W., T. P. McC, A. P., R, I'.. M. M.,
J V., C. F„ M. C, M. L.. M. F„ J. T.,

F. E„ M. L., H. R., J. H., M. F., C M. F.,
R. W., W. C, M. S., A. B., J. R.. M. F.,
N. E. McG.. J. H., I. B„ E. K., C. P.,
H. W. M., S. E., P. C, J. Z., J. J. C,
M. G., E. .1. K., M. C, A. N., W. L. T„

B. K., A. C, K. G., M. W., R. C. V.,
M. K., E. O.. A. S.. R. K., M. D„ W. G. G,
A. C, T. M., E. J. Z„ B. A. R., IC. C,
S. F.. J. M., A. P., J. K., M. K.. J. J. J.,
A. W. C, A. H.. J. R. M.. A. G., M. Q.,
II. II.. M. T., J. L.. A. B.; Clyde: J. J. C;
Canton: O. P. A.. J. A. V.; Carthage: J. F.;
Dayton: M. A. K., J. D. C; Defiance: J. C;

East Iiiverpoo:: Mis IP; Fremont: F. &
B.\ Fostoria: N. IP; Ft. Recovery: A. M.J
Findlay: J. P. M., J. T., T. J. H. S.. J. F.;
Hamilton: R. P., M. E. F., J. M. B.; Iler:
A. IP; Lockland: F. \V. ; Middletown:
F. G. II., P. M., H. W. B., J. M., K. C.
& It. M , W. C; Madisonville: L. V., F. B.;
Niles: R. B. L.; Norwood: G. S., F. B„
C. Y., M. S., J. W. B., M. E., C. J. O'C,
F. S., E. H., W. H.; Oakley: M. D.; Ottawa:
H. C. G.; Reading: A. E. F.; St. Bernard:

F. M., A. M., F. L. G., C. H. G.: Tiffin:
J. W., M. R., R. A. K., J. F. B.; Toledo:
G R., A. K. B., M. F., A. J. J., M. N.,

G. M., N. N., M. E. M., A. K., J. W.,
M. E., F. J. M., H. W.. K. S., E. M., A. W.,
M. N., A. R., M. S.; Vickery: A. D., T. R. D.;
Wooster: R. V. E. C. K. ; Warrenville:
P. R. K.; Yorkshire: B. J. W.

OREGON — Baker: W. P. S.; Maple-
wood: W. B.; Ontario: P. F. B. ; Portland:
P. K.. M. S., K. R. S., A. R., E. J. A.,
C W.

OKLAHOMA — Tu'.sa: C. F. B.

PENNSYLVANIA — Allendale: E. P. A.;
Allenport: J. G.; Avoca: J. It.; Ashland:
A. L.. M. C, S. M.; Archibald: H. McG;
Altoona: J. R., R. W., E. M., E. R. M.,
E. S., W. C L., J. B. L., J. B. P., F. J. Q„
J. M. R.. A. L,., A. McC, M. D., F. E. M.;
Butler: C A. R.; Bellefonte: T. B. H.;
Bridesburg: S. F. H.; Chester: G. H.;
Chestnut Hall: J. A. M.; Carrick: E. D.;
Connellsville : J. N. S., I. Z., A. Y„ E. Y. D.;
Columbia: C. B.J Dunmore: B. J. D.; Darby:
E. .1. K.; Donora: A. \V„ M. G.; Eckley:
P. K.; Erie: W, D., M. H., A. B., A. C B.,
M. F., F. K. ; Freeland: J. B.; Fairchance:
S. B.; Freedom: P. T.; Franklin: T. M.;
Germantown: J. M. D., C. K., H. L. W.;
Garrick: C O. ; Glen Rock: J. C H.; Glen-
lyn: M. D. ; Gallitzen: V. D. ; Gilberton:
J. E.; Heckscherville: T. R.; Homestead:
A. J. M. ; Holmesburg: J. S„ J. L. ; Harris-

Spanglor: I'.. P.; Tarentum: M. it.; Tit!
vine: J. C, M. I.).; Toi-resdale: -M. F. i
Warren: J. C. Mc, .1. E. ; Wilkes-Bar]
.1. M. I).. A. B.. M. B. II.. .M. iiB.. C. I
WUkinsburg: C. W. li., J. W. S.; WashliJ
ton: A. R.; Williamsport : C. R. 1.
Yardley: J. P. M.

RHODE ISDAND— HarriesviUe: J. H. 1
L. J. C, C K., Peachdale: J. W.; PaJ
tucket: M. G., J. M. C, A. C, .1. F. Mel
M. D., J. H., A. F.; Portsmouth: J. P. V.
Providence: X. K., .S. C, W. D., M. Mc
R. I., G. S., M. A. F., M. T.. T. C. <
M. A. D.. E. B., B. H., E. O'D.; Woo'
socket: E. ,S„ E. S.. W. B., W. S. O'B.

'Vouchsafe, O Lord, to reward

with eternal life all who,

for Thy Name's sake,

do us good!"

burg: II. McC, L. P.; Jenkintown: J. E.
H.; Johnstown: A. F„ L. G., M. McC,
C .1. C: Kane: .1. F. B. ; Kingston: B. R.;
Kittanning: I'. E. G.; Lebanon: A. K.,

D. A. Y.; Luzerne: L. P., F. G., M. L,.;
Lancaster: J. McK., J. W., F. A. L. ;
Manayunk: I. F. S., D. R. J. S.; Mountain
Top: M. U; Mahanoy Plane: A. M.; Mt.
Oliver: S. Q., J. S., A. K., M. J. B., J. J. W„
M. K., C. S.; Monte Alto: A. S.; Morris-
ville: M. G.; McKees Rocks: H. P.; Mc-
Keesport: D. H., M. H., J. H.; Narbeth:
K. A. L.; Newey: M. C; Overbrook: W.

F. II.; Oil City: P. I., C. A. G. M. J. McX.,

E. D. F.; Pittsburg: .1. M., J. H. C, A. W.,
V. i:.. C A. S.j P. W.; Pittsburgh: .1. M„
J. H. C, A. W., V. B., E. A. S., P. W.,
A. It., M, ii.. A. 1',.. S. H., A. R.. J. S„
M. K , M. M„ M. Q„ P. G„ M. R., J. &
C. K„ E. J. F.. II. U, S. E. C, C. H.,

G. T. L.. J. E. D., A. L., P. .1. T.; Phila-
delphia: M. ];., M. T., B. MoW., M. Ci
.Mis. n., M. A. McC, A. S„ S. Mc. II. J.
Mel. . J. D., L. T., N. X. K., E. P.. H. K.,
M. B., J. R., J. C. O'C, T. L,., L. P.,
M. M., R. H.. M. J., N. B„ H. J. B.,
A. It., C. Z., A. H. B., J. McC. P. P.,
M. C, M. I?.. It. (',.. E. X.. M. I\. C. S.,
M. I!.. M. V. J., M. D., T. H., A. .1. It.,
C M.. J. M. C. A. R. A., P. O'B.. E. G..
M. M., T. K., E. A. V.. G. P., M. O.,
M, E. A.. O. X.. J. D„ M. B., J. D. M.,
A. V. R., F. A. It.. E. W.. M. McG., C. M„
A. McM., A. i:.. K. R., .1. J. M„ A. D.,
M. L. M.. H. S., A. S„ C. R., G. J. G.,
H. F„ X. McC, F. M., W. C. J. H., J. J. G„
M. R. S. C. C, M. It. Q., M. S., L. W.,
.1. P., S. V... A. D., B. B., M. McK., F. D. S„
G. J. C; Parnassus: P. J. K. : Fottsville:
W. '/,.; Plymouth: F. McC, P. P.; Reading:
A. E. S.. S. M. X., Mis. .1. B.; Sheffield:
M. P.; Sharon: T. C. \V., J. F. McG.;
Scranton: R. M., J. M.. W. G.. P. M..
1 1. .1. McC, J. E.; Shamokin: C. C, F. A.;
Shenandoah: «'. 1',; Sumraerhill: II. J. W.;

VIRGINIA — Hampton: M. II
mond: B. M. M.. J. It., .1. P... A. i'.
W. McE., J. C.

WEST VIRGINIA — Alexandria: M. T. D
I.,. \\ .; Chester: W. M. I.; Elm Grov«
II. M.; McMeachen: C ti.; Norfolk: J. ]
B.i Portsmouth: A. T. G., I". B. K.; Whee
ing: E. H . .1. V. Jr., K. B., A. H., C. G
T. B., E. V., J. W., J. W. F.

WISCONSIN — Algoma: D. R. G. mI
Altoona: F. It. .1.; Algona: M. T M.; AppH
ton: M. H.; Ashland: .1. P., P. .1. B
Antigo: E S.; BurUngton: M. S.. P. H. Rj
.1. S.; Beloit: A. F. G. A. G. H.; Campbells
port: P. M. S.. M. B.; Cazenovia: M. J. C,
Chippewa Falls: J. M A .. S. I. M., M. L. T

A. n.. C. P.. II. \V.. H. M.; Cudahy: .1
H. W., P.. P.: Columbus: A. \\ '.; Cuba Cit;

B. J. K.: Denmark: M. C; De Fere
W. H. M.J Eau Claire: M. P. X

E. H.; Eagle River: E \V. ; Fond du L:

F. D., M. C, S. S. F., A. W., N. D.. J. H,
Green Bay: W. L. S.; Hudson: L. F., E. d
Hartford: I>. E. M., P. G. C, M. B.; Jeffe]
son: J. H.. E. K.; Kevenville: T. C; Kai
kauna: T. K., C. L.; Klmberly: II. M. W,
Kewaskum: H. It.; Kewaunee: M. J.
LaCrosse: I". .S., L. V. C; Lancaster: P.
E. J.; Luxemburg: X. W, M.: Lyndi
J. T.; Milwaukee: E. M. M., G. A. S.. A. M
It. It.. I. E. C, E. B.. C. Met'.. T. I
J. J. B.. K. K., F. N., J. E. F., P'. J. Co,

E. M. K., L. B.. M. M., J. G., H. J., A. M
!•:. E., M. P. .1. P. It.. L. P. M.. M

A. T., X. S.. D. P.. M. O'C, M. X.. VV. A. Li,

F. P.. .1. W., L. K.. T. \V., J. K. S., Mr
N„ M. V.. M C. E. .1. G.. 3. J. I
.1 P. P., T. P.. I''. S.. R. J., L. G
towoc: .1. A T.. Marshfield: J. H. B.
Menominee Falls: F. W.; Mt. Horeb: A. H.
Marion: C. P. V- G.i Madison: S. V
W. B.; Marathon City: A. E.; Mazomania
J. G.; New Richmond: G. C. McC; Osh.
kosh: W. It .; Port Washington:
.1. A. H.; Pulaski: It. E. P.; Platteville
I' P . It. \V. P.; Rhinelander: A. P.J Rocola
W. M. P.; Rico Lake: M. V. P.; Racine

.\1 K.. IC. K ; Superior: T. G., \V. .1. Ul_.
.1. !•:.. K. I'.: Stanley: T. M.J SpoonerM
E. K.J Sheboygan: M. E. B., E. D.j Timothyrti
J. S.; Verona: II. B.J Waunakee: .)
K. H.. S. K.. 8. K.. C. H.J Wallis: M. I
Waukesha: A. H.. A. P.. J. P. W.. F. L

B. S., H. K., A. P.; West End: C, J.. West!
Point: It. V. A M.: Waterford: H. H.|
West Bend: M. G. \V., K. P. K.J Wausau:
.1. A. X.

WASHINGTON — Buckeye: M. McG. J
Charleston: J. D.j Chehalis: .T. B.J Hill-
yard: P. A.; MuMlter: R. .1. McD.; Mil-
wood: J. J. D.; Olympia: E. H., M. L,.;|
Pomeroy: W. L. M., D. McG.; Sprague:
J. A. D.; South Bend: R. J. C; Seattle:
M. D., M. G.; Spokane: F. D.. L. K. McD.,
S. I\. E. A HL; Tacoma: W. M. Q., J.I
R. Y.

This list will be continued in the next]
issue.

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Franciscan Kerafd

A monthly magazine edited and published by the Friars Minor of the Sacred Heart Province in the interests of the
Third Order and of the Franciscan Missions.

Volume X

MARCH, 1922

Number 3

imimjmimimimimimimimi^imimm^

CONTENTS

EDITORIALS
Ocr Mission Picture — Benedict XV — Pius XI 99

THE THIRD ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS
Chats with Tertiabies 10^

By Fr. Giles, 0. F. M.
On Setting Out Joy Plants 104

By Agnes Modesta
Social Service op a Tertiary Conference. . . .106

By Mary A. Abbot

MISSIONS
From Yellow River to Gordon 108

By Fr. Odorie, O. F. M.
Great Joy at St. John 's Mission 110

By Fr. Antonine, 0. F. M.

FICTION

Who Wins? 112

By Blanche Weitbree

Making Port 117

By P. D. Murphy

IN THE INTEREST OF WOMEN 121

By Grace Keon

FIRESIDE TALKS AND TALES 128

By Elizabeth Rose

MISCELLANEOUS

How the Pope is Elected 133

By Fr. Francis Borgia, 0. F. M.
In the World of Books 136

By Paul H. Richards

FRANCISCAN NEWS 140

Our Mission Picture
San Luis Rey, Queen of Missions, was founded on
June 13, 1798. It became the largest and most popu-
lous Indian mission of both Americas. M. Duflot de
Mofras declared the buildings "the most beautiful,
the most regular, and the most solid in whole Califor-
nia." As the ruins still show, they covered a square
measuring 500 feet every way. Facing southeast in
a line with the front of the church, the peristyle had
thirty-two arches. In architectural beauty, the
church, still in charge of the Franciscans, has not
its equal among those yet extant in California. At
this grand mission, its founder and designer, Fr.
Antonio Peyri, toiled 34 years for his dear and loving
neophytes. During this time, 5,225 Indians had been
baptized and 2,406 had received a Christian burial.
The rest, 2,819 in number, were living at the end of
1831 in their pueblo north of the church. Then fol-
lowed the so-called "secularization," enacted by the
Californian representatives of the Mexican govern-
ment, as a result of which "most of the missions,"
to quote Major Emory's report of January 2, 1847,
"passed by fraud into the hands of private individ-
uals." The picture of what was to come proved too
heart-rending for Fr. Peyri, advanced now in years
and broken in health. With the consent of his su-
perior, on January 17, 1832, he sailed for Mexico.
Secretly at night he stole away from the mission ; the
next morning his neophytes dashed to the seashore;
men and boys swam after the ship that was taking
their padre away; weeping the latter stood on deck
and blessed his loved ones for the last time — such
the closing scene in the career of one of California's
ablest missionaries, such the sad beginning of the
tragic end of its most beautiful and most prosperous
mission.

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FRANCISCAN HERALD

March, 1922

Benedict XV

THE February issue of the HERALD was just in
the mail when the following sad telegram was
officially sent out by the Apostolic Delegate at Wash-
ington, D. C. :

In profound sorrow I write to inform you that our Holy
Father Pope Benedict XV died this morning (Sunday,
January 22), at six o'clock. While we bow in submission
to the will of God in calling to Himself the visible head
of His Church, we can not but mourn the loss of this great
Pontiff, who amid the world's calamities did so much in
behalf of religion, humanity, and peace.

This was the confirmation of the news that had
already been flashed throughout the world by the
various news agencies. The Catholic Church had
lost its visible head, the world, its best friend and
counselor. Catholics and non-Catholics alike mourn
the death of the man who had done so much for all
of them.

With unbounded confidence in God and with su-
perior statesmanship, he worked strenuously in the

interest of peace. Within a short time after
his election, he implored the warring nations
to lay down their arms. Appeal followed ap-
peal only to be refused and to be made the
object of much adverse criticism by the hostile
press. However, it is now more than ever
apparent that the series of papal pronounce-
ments on peace, which were so bitterly attacked
during the war, really laid the foundation for
the peace measures finally drawn up by the
belligerents. The reason why the latter proved
so imperfect, is because the former were fol-
lowed so poorly. It was said in the secular
press that one of the last words of the dying
Pontiff was: "I willingly offer my life for the
peace of the world." In this spirit he lived,
in this spirit he died, and history will grate-
fully record the fact.

Before the close of his life, Pope Benedict
had the happiness of seeing his efforts at recon-
ciliation bear fruit. "Notwithstanding the
adverse judgments of war-strained minds and
hearts, the nations have already recognized as
never before in modern times, the unsurpassed
moral influence of the* Papacy and have vied
with one another in seeking closer official re-
lations with the Holy See." All the principal
European powers and the largest of the South
American states now have ambassadors or
ministers at the Vatican. In all, twenty-seven
nations of the world are now sustaining official
diplomatic relations with the Holy See. Semi-
official relations have been established between
the Vatican and China, Japan, Turkey, and?
Lithuania. The exchange of diplomatic repre-
sentations between Japan and the Holy See is
expected as one of the important events of 1922.
Whilst Pope Benedict was secretly admired
in diplomatic circles for his bold constructive
statesmanship, and brilliant scholarship, he
was loved and venerated by the whole world
for his unbounding generosity and charity.
"How he was able to relieve so many necessities, to
help so many charitable causes, to succor ever-recur-
ring needs is a secret of the providence of God, who
placed at his disposal resources far in excess of the
normal inadequate revenues of the Apostolic See."
In spite of the many difficulties and problems which
the great war and its aftermath brought forth, he
never for a single moment lost sight of the Church,
whose visible head he was, and he bent every effort
to have her recognized by the whole world.

Under his guidance, that masterpiece of ecclesi-
astical jurisprudence, the new Code of Canon Law,
was brought to completion — a work that brings the
wisdom and experience of twenty centuries into
one volume of wise constructive legislation.

The sorrow of the Catholic Church in its great loss
is shared by all irrespective of creed or country.
May he rest in peace! Amen.

March, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

101

T^vOWN in the spacious piazza of

JL/ St. Peter's at Rome a vast throng

lad gathered to await the outcome of

;he election of the new Pope. For

;hree days they lingered, their gaze

5xed on the roof of the Sistine Chap-
I They watched for a little wreath

Df smoke that would tell of the elec-
tion of the new Pope or of the failure

Df the Sacred College to reach a deci-
sion. Six times already the smoke was

dense and black, a sign of no election.

But on Monday morning, February
a mighty shout of joy went up at

11:33 o'clock, when a thin curl of

white smoke was seen coming from

the chimney announcing that the

chair of St. Peter had again been

filled. The choice came on the

seventh ballot. The election was
confirmed when the dean of the car-
Idinal deacons, Bisleti, followed by
[several cardinals, repaired to the
Icentral balcony of St, Peter's and
"solemnly proclaimed to the expectant
fmultitudes: "I announce to you great
noy, the election of a Pontiff. Cardi-
nal Achille Ratti, Archbishop of
[Milan, has been chosen to succeed
jBenedict XV as Supreme Pontiff.
JHe will be known as Pius XL"
i The new Pontiff was born at Desio,
Italy, on March 31, 1857. He comes
of a middle-class family, the third of
six children. After making his pre-
liminary studies in the diocesan semi-
nary, he completed his studies at
|Rome in the Lombard College, obtain-
ing at the Gregorian University the
doctor degrees of Philosophy, Theol-
ogy, and Canon Law. Ordained
to the priesthood, he celebrated his
first holy Mass in Rome on December
20, 1879.

On returning to Milan, his native
diocese, he occupied the chairs of dogmatic theology
,and sacred eloquence from 1882 to 1888. In 1888 he
was appointed to The Staff of the College of Doctors
[Of the famous Ambrosian Library, where he was
elected Prefect of the Library in 1907.

On account of his successful activity in the Am-
brosian Library, he was called to Rome in 1911 to
fill the post of Pro-Prefect of the Vatican Library
as assistant to Father Ehrle, the Bavarian Jesuit,
whom he succeeded in 1913. The same year brought
him also the honored title of Protonotary Apostolic.
Pope Benedict XV, recognizing the ability of Mon-
signor Ratti, designated him Apostolic Visitor to
Poland on April 25, 1918. It was on this occasion
that he first came prominently before the diplomatic
world. He immediately made it plain that his mis-
sion was purely an ecclesiastical one, and so success-
fully did he discharge his duties, that his authority

Pope Pius XI

as Apostolic Visitor was extended to Russia, Latvia,
and Lithuania.

His services in Poland were of such a nature that
he attracted attention among all diplomatic corps,
and his efforts in behalf of the Church were so
highly blessed that it was a foregone conclusion that
the Apostolic Visitor would be made Papal Nuncio,
a position which he assumed June 6, 1919.

It was while he was in Warsaw that he was ap-
pointed Titular Archbishop of Lepanto, on July 3,
1920, and was consecrated by Cardinal Kakowski on
October 28 of the same year, in the Cathedral of
Warsaw.

It was less than a year after being made Titular
Archbishop of Lepanto that he was elevated to the
c-ardinalate and made Archbishop of Milan, a post
made vacant by the death of Cardinal Ferrari.

CHATS WITH TERTIARIES

By Fr. Giles, O. F. M.

I KNOW that quite a number of
my friends were disappointed
last month when, picking up
their copy of the HERALD, they ex-
pected to have a good chat on mat-
ters Tertiary and instead had to
listen to a sermon on the necessity
of \mpvessing our young people with
the spirit of renunciation that the
thinning ranks of the religious Or-
ders might be refilled with staunch
recruits. But, friends, you know
that one of a priest's principal du-
ties is to preach and it is not always
so easy not to do what one is ac-
customed to do. Let me tell you,
by way of excuse, an amusing inci-
dent from the life of our great pa-
tron, St. Louis IX, of France, that
is quite to the point.

Although a saint, Louis was very,
very human and as his heart was
free from sin, it was always bub-
bling over with innocent mirth, so
that the least thing was wont to
bring a hearty laugh or at least a
bright smile to his lips. It occurred
to him one day as he was writing
down some good resolutions, to re-
solve never to laugh on Fridays, out
of respect for the bitter suffering
and death of our Savior. -He real-
ized at once what a great act of
self-conquest such a resolution
would mean for him, and he paused
for a while to think the matter over.
Finally, with a sly twinkle in his
eye, he worded the resolution thus:
"I will never laugh on Fridays — if
I can help it!" Now, I've made a
similar resolution for this month
and that is that I shall not preach
to you — if I can help it!

But to begin — oh, yes, we had
been talking about the required age
for membership in the Third Order
and we learned that no one under
fourteen years can be admitted to

profession, though, indeed, there is
nothing to prevent children under
this age from being postulants.
This is a point that I think is too
little thought of and still less fre-
quently put into practice. One ex-
perienced priest advises that chil-
dren under fourteen be enrolled in
the so-called confraternity of the
Cord of St. Francis, as postulants
for the Third Order — a sort of Jun-
ior Third Order, but of course with-
out any of the Order's special duties
or privileges. This is, in my hum-
ble opinion, an excellent idea and I
would like to see it given a good
trial. Theirs is the age of inno-
cence, when the heart is most im-
pressionable, and Holy Church is
well aware of the saying, "As the
twig is bent the tree will incline."
If children of tender age are
brought under the influence of St.
Francis, they will possess those
qualifications that the Rule of the
Third Order demands of its mem-
bers, namely, that they be "of good
morals, of peaceable disposition,
and above all exact in the practice
of the Catholic religion, and of tried
obedience to the Roman Church and
to the Apostolic See."

Now here we have one of the
commonest excuses for not joining
the Third Order — "I'm not good
enough !" Grown persons think back
over the thoughtlessly spent days
of their youth, and find that in more
ways than one their young hearts
were bent away from good Catholic
practices, and naturally they find it
hard to bend the full-grown tree of
their will back in the opposite di-
rection. That this is true in many
cases, I will not deny, and for such
I know that membership in the
Third Order would mean a life of
real penance and self-denial. But
102

that such a conversion is possibl
the list of Saints and Blessed i
the Order proves conclusivel;
Just recall the life of St. Margan
of Cortona, the so-called Seraphi
Magdalen; or that of Bl. Nevolo
or of St. Conrad of Piacenza, and o:
many others.

But as a rule, the objection,
am not good enough," has no re
foundation in fact. About a yeal
ago, I was trying to persuade a good
friend of mine to join the Third
Order and although he was a model
Catholic in every way and was lead-
ing a stricter and more charitable
life than many a Tertiary, it took
repeated exhortations finally to wiA
him over. Now he goes about tell-
ing his friends how Fr. Giles sue*
ceeded in getting a "wild Irishman"
to join the Third Order. Of course^
it is true that persons of loose mow
als or of shady reputations will not
be admitted to membership until
they have shown unmistakable signt)
of true and lasting repentance. Yesj
even Mr. Busybody and Mrs. Gada-
bout make most undesirable Ter«
tiaries, as such people bring the Or-
der into disrepute. In fact I know
that in several cities, a large num-
ber of estimable persons, both young
and old, refused to join the Third
Order as long as the fraternity har-
bored such characters. Happily,
the Reverend Director and the Fa-
ther Visitor have power to expel
such undesirable Tertiaries from
the Order, just as a prudent gar-
dener removes the dry branches and
wild growths from his trees, lest
their presence prove injurious to.
their healthy growth. Hence mem-
bers should be careful, when trying
to secure candidates, not to swell the
membership of their fraternity with
the "Busybody-Gadabout tribe," lest

March, 1022

FRANCISCAN HERALD

103

the words of Holy Writ be again
verified: "Thou hast multiplied the
nation but hast not increased the
joy." (Is. 9.3).

But to come back to my subject.
Many persons think that because
they are not living models of every
virtue, they cannot join the Third
Order. Now, I want to impress most
emphatically on every one that
practically every man, woman and
child is eligible as a candidate for
the Third Order. Just as the daily
reception of Holy Communion does
not require consummate
sanctity from those who prac-
tice it, but will gradually lead
them to the sublimest heights
of holiness ; so, too, the Third
Order of Penance of St. Fran-
cis has been instituted for
ordinary Catholics and it also
will gradually make real
saints of them, provided they
faithfully live up to its regu-
lations. God demands that
a person be free from mortal
sin for the worthy reception
of Holy Communion. This
does not say that if a person
has the misfortune to com-
mit a mortal sin, he will be
permanently debarred from
the divine Banquet. If he is
sorry for his sin and con-
fesses it, he will at once be-
come worthy again to receive
his Lord under the appear-
ance of bread. Similarly, the
Third Order requires of its
members that they be of good
morals. This means that a
person who wishes to join
must be leading the life of
an ordinary, good, practical
Catholic. Even should he
have the misfortune now and then
to offend God by a grievous sin —
which happens more from human
weakness than from malice — this
will by no means prevent him from
becoming a Tertiary. By joining
the Third Order such a person will
gradually overcome these sins in
consequence of the many spiritual
helps the Order gives him to lead a
pure and blameless life.

"And does the Third Order make
real live saints of its members?"
I hear some one asking under his
breath. Yes, my friends, it does, and
at this very moment there are thou-
sands of Tertiaries throughout the

world, who are leading lives of even
eminent holiness. Now I know that
many of you have queer ideas as to
what constitutes real sanctity. You
read your Lives of the Saints and
stand aghast at the recital of their
hours of silent meditation, their
austere and prolonged fasts, their
constant mortification of the senses,
their scourgings unto blood, their
sleepless nights spent in prayer, and
then you put down the book with a
deep sigh and say, "Oh, if I could do
only one tenth of what they did, I'd

Frederick Ozanam — A Model Tertiary

have some hope then of one day be-
coming a saint. As it is, there is no
use trying!" And all the while you
have about you real, living saints,
and are totally unaware of it! Or

didn't you know that Mrs

well, I will not mention her name,
you know whom I mean — is a real
saint? You see her every day
trudging faithfully to Mass in spite
of wind and weather. She has a
touch of the "rheumatiz" of course,
but "shure, Father, we've all got to
have something," she replies with a
bright, patient smile as she passes
the priest at the church door and
he inquires about her health. And

as she leaves the house of God after
being refreshed with the Bread of
the strong, we see another saint
hurrying past her, dinner pail in
hand and intent on catching the car
to be at his work in time. He, too,
is one of the early risers and daily
repairs to the church, there to take
orders for his day's labor from his
Fellow Workman, the Son of Joseph,
the carpenter. And then there's
Miss N — you know she lives
right around the corner from your
own home — another saint, a rein-
carnation of Job, who stands
behind a sales counter the
livelong day and smiles
; sweetly in spite of the nerve-
racking manners of Mrs.
] Newlyrich and Miss Society
: Belle, who regularly deter-
I mine to have her show them
I everything in the store before
deciding on a purchase. Yes,
and there's Mr. Office Man-
ager and Mr. Storekeeper
walking constantly under the
eyes of the Master, Who with
a look and a word made
saints and apostles of Levi
the usurer and Peter the
^ ■'.-. fisherman, not to mention
\ the sweet tempered tele-
''\ts\ i phone girl, the gentle hos-
pital nurse, the factory hand
and mill worker, and — but,
friends, it's impossible to
I count up all the people in
" your own very neighborhood
who are daily climbing higher
on the ladder of sanctity as
members of the Third Order
j of St. Francis. I just men-
■' tioned these few to prove that
holiness — real holiness — is
well within your grasp, since
it consists in nothing else than the
constant endeavor to perform the
ordinary duties of one's state in
life as perfectly as possible and
with a good intention. If you do
this, you will have no difficulty keep-
ing your soul in the state of sanc-
tifying grace and sanctifying grace
is holiness.

Now, let me give you a bit of ad-
vice — remember, I'm not preaching
to you but just telling you !— if you
wish to be men and women of good
morals, as the Third Order of St.
Francis requires you to be, take up
your book of the Holy Gospels and
read that beautiful, simple sen-

104 F \i A X C I S G A N H E K A L D March, 1922

tence: "And Jesus went down with

them to Nazareth and was subject ON SETTING OUT TOY PLANTS

to them." There, in the hidden life

of Jesus, Mary and Joseph — the By Agnes Modesta

three holiest persons that ever trod

this sin-cursed world of ours— you TTOU may recall that in consid- than true joy. And of all worship
will find just those virtues prac- y ering the Ideal Modern Catho- and courtesy, none is more sincere,
tised in an heroic yet most attrac- J_ n c Woman, we saw in her a more spontaneous, than that which
tive and imitable manner which you smile of radiating joy, a joy that is suggested by genuine joy in the
must practice to become a saint, all the delights of the world can- giving.

And after you have meditated long not give, nor all the sorrows of the If we rejoice because we are in
and earnestly on the divine home world take away. It is this joy this world, safe in the shelter of the
and the holy family that lived there, which is beyond any shadow of Father's care, busy in the cultiva-
look about you and you will see it doubt, one of the outstanding quali- tion each of our little garden, lean-
reflected on all sides, reflected in ties of the best type of womanhood, ing happily upon Him without fear
the simple, workaday lives of the Yet, unfortunately, to many it is and accepting His decrees with joy
Tertiary children of the Seraphic but a phase, a thing of accident or beoause they are His; and if we
Father, St. Francis. of environment or of feeling. It thrill with delight because just over

Friends, the world is sick unto * s *° De deplored that so few, com- the garden wall and up the hill of
death from its orgy of sin and vice, paratively, give the attention that is this little life is waiting the Great
Holy Church expects the Third Or- due it to the setting out and culti- Garden of His love, into which the
der of St. Francis to heal its wounds va ting, in the fertile soil of their plots we have watched and tended
and to restore it to the peace of souls > the Joy-plant. during Time will be re-set to blos-

Christ. This can be done if each A charming and profitable way of som with everlasting fragrance in
member but does his share. Life looking at our souls is to regard Eternity; and if we take care that
is earnest and it must be taken seri- them as little gardens of God, lux- our little plants of joy send forth
ously. As children of St. Francis uriant with fruits, foliage and flow- their sturdy shoots and give out the
you are called to show the world ers °f every kind and hue, whose exotic perfume of Heaven's own at-
how this can be done with a smiling purpose it is to spread fragrance mosphere — why, who can doubt that
face and a gladsome heart. In this an d beauty to the glory of Him who the Master, waiting at His garden
way your lives will be models for g ave them into our keeping, and to gate to welcome us, will smile as
the imitation of others and far from the delight and refreshment of all we lay the blossoms in their full-
dissuading non-Tertiaries from wno are Dus y with the care of like blown beauty at His feet?
joining the Order, will but serve to g a rdens. Not for nothing did the great con-

attract them to it. And you, my For God has given to each of us vert and apostle say in one of his
friends, who are not yet enrolled one °f these soul-gardens to weed, unforgetable letters to the early
as members of the Third Order, water, prune and direct until the Christians: "Rejoice always, again
must not fear the obligations that time of gathering. The work is not I say rejoice— in the Lord." And
this membership entails. If you without its difficulties, for there are none, I think, would be so bold as

earnestly desire to become saints s0 many growths good and bad to be to discredit the right of Paul of Tar-

and who of you does not? you al- reckoned with; so many weeds that sus to speak with authority of the

ready possess all the qualities that choke the life from thriving plants; wishes of the Master,
go to the making of a good Tertiary. ar) d some blooms upon which we Of course, throughout the ages,
By deferring your investment, you l a vish our tender care only to dis- there have been otherwise excellent
are simply depriving yourself, as cover that we have been deluded by souls who have taken their path to
my "wild Irishman" did, of count- false beauty into cultivating spread- Heaven as one of gloom and misery,
less special graces that will be ers °f ran k poison. But it is a great Their soul-gardens probably
yours as a Tertiary. Think it over work, and well worth our tireless abounded in thrifty cactus-plants,
and then grasp the first opportunity vigilance, if we are able to produce prickly pear, bitter herbs and net-
to be enrolled. even one fair blossom for the Mas- ties. All most excellent in small

ter's bouquet. quantities — say as a hedge to keep
Let us suppose that we are in marauders away from the more ten-

The place of the Third Order as doubt as to which place we ought to der and beautiful blooms — but for a
. ,. . ., „, , , give the most of our attention, complete garden — Horrors!
an organization in the Church is There are so many> even of good The keepers of these gardens plod

with the religious orders, between one s, and though we put forth our their way to Eternity dragging their

the clergy and the laity. It is more best efforts, we cannot cultivate string of crosses for the edification

than a sodality or confraternity or them all equally. My own sugges- of those who see and wonder and

society. It has been expressly de- tion in this case is that we should all too often shudder and turn

. , ... , give prominence to the hardy per- away, impressed perhaps, but fear-

clared a true religious order by the ennia , the Joy . plan t. For of all ful. Such gloom-bound souls have

Holy See. qualities, none is more contagious, apparently not considered the in-

— A Call and the Answer. more far-reaching, more inspiring, junction of the Savior of the world,

iforch, 1922 FRANCISCAN HERALD 105

wash our faces and anoint our lowed to remain as a snare to the of the results. The effort, too, is

leads when we fast, that the world little thoughts that walk inside the only thing of real value to be

ie not apprised of our virtue. those walls. done during our stay in this Valley

| Now, none can with justice deny So, when the ideal Catholic Fam- of Waiting. Of course we must

!hat pain and penance are necessary ily next looks out from the shining show our gratitude for the use of

n the long steep climb to the Gar- windows of its Ideal Catholic Home, the beautiful Valley while we are

len Gate of God, but in thinking of may it look upon gardens well set here, by giving freely of our ser-

Ivhat lies behind that gate it is not out with Joy-plants. They aren't vice for its welfare. But our care

,'iard to let the mantle of joy hide hard to raise, even in the more se- for the Earth and its beauties must

!»ur pains, and the sunshine of joy vere climates, if the ground is first not be an end in itself, but rather

! ;urn the sharp points of penitential prepared by being mixed with the a sub-department to the real work

|icourges into the brilliance of grace of God, and plentifully of cultivation in the gardens of our

uparkling jewels. For it is not the moistened with water from four at souls.

ifloom-carriers, with their slow and least of the seven sacramental g Modern Catholic Women let

bonderous tread, who will make streams that flow from God's great us a \\ i i^ e garden tools of' our

3weet and desirable the road to garden to our own wee ones. The profession, and see how many of us

■Eternity; but those whose hands inspiring gardener will not require can bnrig the Joy-plant to perfec-

jire filled with the flowers of the a seed catalogue, because she will tion. We do not work unauthorized.

Joy-plant, who run and laugh and find in her own soul-garden at least Our dear Lord and His perfect

ijinging reach the entrance of God's one tiny plant. This may be dug Mother, and St. Paul, the Apostle

jarden where, consumed by the out from the midst of its crowding f the Gentiles have all made it

|jvhite blaze of their own happiness neighbors and slipped or trans- c i ear to us tna t the Joy-plant is a

and love, they find that the fra- planted with great success. For swe et and seemly thing. Then there

France of their blossoms has ar- when given the necessary encour- are ^q countless heroes of the

! rived before them and that the gate agement, the Joy-plant is a hardy Cross, whose joy has made beautiful

has been set wide for their going specimen and almost impossible to t ne roa( j they traveled. One of

i' n * kill. these, of peculiar interest to us, is

i We modern Catholic women, who But for the best results, after the Francis of Assisi the great bearer

[are valiantly trying to show forth little plants are set out, they must f t ne message of' joy. For despite

the ideal of our kind, must come to not be left to the mercy of the ele- hj s man y an( j severe penances his

[realize that we have a real respon- ments. Neither must their bloom ijf e was co ] ore< j w ith the rose-hue

sibility in the maintaining of an at- be forced. They must be given in- f happiness and his exulting soul

mosphere of happiness. It isn't al- telligent care, all noxious weeds bade good-bye to "Brother Body "

ways easy, and without the help of such as ill-temper, impatience, doubt j n a great song of joy

the Fountain-head of Joy, it isn't and discouragement, removed as «,.„ «, ., . .., • ,. ,,
„ „ i i -ui j -a i.i- i -j.i • Therefore it is with a right noble

even remotely possible, despite cer- soon as they make their appearance. > .• tu . , u „ j r> au *•

. . _, , . ,, , ,, „, -,i . v.i i.*. i ii. i-ii.i backing that the modern Catholic

tain modern systems that would These will probably attack the little . , , ,

. , ,. . . , , -a , ... . , . . f . ,, ., . ,, woman can go about her spring

have us believe it to be so. But with plant viciously, even after it is well n i an fj n „. a a h th A f

God there are no impossibilities, started on its road to maturity, but .. .„ ' . , K ,

, •» ,. TT - , , ,, •„ ., • . » ,. j • the harvest are upon her and she

and if we consult Him about the if their roots are followed consci- .. . - ,

care of our Joy-plants, we shall be entiously and pulled out and gathers her flowers one by one for

amazed to find that almost before burned, they will soon give up the the final offerin g> the yield of her

we can believe it they will have attempt. Care, constant and watch- Joy-Plants will be to her a strength

grown and spread and begun to ful, must go into the cultivation of and a refreshment, and the cooling

climb the garden walls, entwining all the worth-while plants in our fragrance of their blossoms will

with their caressing tendrils each soul-gardens, but the labor becomes make sweet the evening air along

sharp point that may have been al- pleasant when we look to the beauty her road to God.

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SOCIAL SERVICE OF A TERTIARY SSS ^Hh L «:£" c d:
CONFERENCE S hanke<1 th<! Terti<lr ' M tor the "

„ % , , During that winter and spring,!.

By Mary Aloysia Abbot re l ief had been extended to thel

most needy pupils and their fami-l

THE Congregation of Our Lady prizes at Christmas if they con- lies by our members; visits werel
of the Holy Spirit was found- tinued to be faithful. made to the homes, and garment*!'

ed in New York City, Oc- when the day of the Christmas sewed by the Tertiaries were do-!
tober 16, 1917. celebration arrived, the Rector, hav- nated where poverty existed. One!

The first six months were spent j ng prepared a Crib, gave the chil- mother in the parish, though an op-i;
in organizing the Congregation ac- dren a little talk on the Babe of portunity had presented itself of j
cording to the Rule, and according Bethlehem, "from whom," he ex- getting a better home by leaving thef
to its own special By-Laws, with the plained, '"all good gifts come." To neighborhood, refused to do so, say-1
guidance of our Director, the Very quo te our Chairman of Good Works, ing that she was unwilling to take!;
Reverend Edward Blecke. 0. F. M., each child was to have received her children away from the influ-1
at that time Provincial of the Prov- three things from the funds of our ence of the Tertiaries.
inee of the Holy Name. By the end Conference. Instead of three hun- The district contained three non.
of the first season the Congregation dred children, we had between eight Ca JJ olic ch „ c he "and one : flourish
was fully organized, and in May the hundred and one thousand, so that £f settlement wWch earlier had
meetings were adjourned for the the distribution was uneven In u settlement, wnicn earlier had
summer •* J n l-i * u j uneven, in been found striving to draw away

T^; a ,,f„mn „f km « tVlo r f "• 1 \ ad been d0ne t0 the Catholic children. A minister

In the autumn of 1918 the Confer- glve them pleasure, to the casual from one of thes e churches had
ence of our Congregation decided observer, the celebration must have he °™ known to greet the children
that as no definite work had pre- appeared to be a failure. To our when at Xv in the street offe?
sented itself, it would be best for Tertiaries, however, it gave the rea- the m sweetmeats and pronSe vvel
the Conference to place itself at the son why they had been led to the ^t^lT^o^uldcTme^
disposal of the Ordinary of the dio- neglected children of that district. *£„„£ the MlowinJ SundTv
cese for work in any needy parish of While the very little ones were in-
the City. clined to be obedient, the older ones The second vear > tne services of

The Tertiaries were directed by were so openly eager and rebellious two _ sis ters of Mercy having been
His Grace, then Bishop Hayes, now at the restraint of being kept even obtained by the Rector, the Ter-
th'e beloved Archbishop of New a few moments in the pews, that a tiaries continued their work as as-
York, to an Italian parish which mob psychology seemed to seize sistants, until with a sufficient num-
was organizing and was quite the upon them; and that they did not ber of religious installed in the par-
poorest in New York City. The swarm over the altar railing, which j sn ' a re S ular Sunday School was
Rector not having as yet a church they broke, and into the Sanctuary in complete operation,
or rectory of his own was kindly of that basement chapel, is still a Last winter our Chairman of Good
given the use of a basement chapel mystery. There were hundreds Works found that there was very
by the Fathers of the Most Holy against four Tertiaries who stood great need of garments among the
Redeemer, while he gathered his within the rail. Leper colonies of the world. To aid

flock together. On May 3, very many of these the Franciscan Missionaries of

The work required of nine Ter- same children made their first Con- Mary in this work, a weekly sewing
tiaries, two lay assistants, and later fession; and the Grace of the Sac- class was established at the home of
two Franciscan Missionaries of rament was so noticeable in their one of our members, and later at
Mary whom our Reverend Director demeanor after leaving the Confes- the residence of our President, who
had asked to help us, was to organ- sional, that their instructors felt at all of these meetings read aloud,
lze three hundred wholly uninstruc- muc h encouraged. So quiet, gentle, from Dr. Adrian Fortescue's "Or-
ted Italian boys and girls between and prayerful were thev that in thodox Eastern Churches."
the ages of five and thirteen into some instances their teachers with In addition, it has been our privi-
classes of instruction for the re- difficulty recognized their own pu- lege since our foundation to have
ception of the Sacraments of Pen- pils. On Ascension Day, the Ter- aided many whose needs we dis-
ance and Holy Communion. It was tiaries beheld the crowning fruits covered. Our special aim, however,
quickly discovered that there was no of their efforts in that parish, when has been the preparation for profes-
question of grading these children, they saw 123 children most rev- sion of our Novices by regular in-
as all had to begin from the founda- erently receive our Eucharistic struction in the Rule throughout
tion ; so, with the aid of their zeal- Lord. They had come to us as the year of probation. This being
ous Rector they were divided ac- savages and they were now trans- well accomplished, our hope has
cording to age, on the opening day, formed into angels. The zealous been that fidelity to the spirit of our
November 16, 1918. The regular Rector that morning addressed the Seraphic Father will, with the aid
attendance at the classes was good, children, their parents and rela- of Our Ladv and St. Francis, surely
and the children were promised tives, in their new church which had follow

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107

YOUTH'S PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH

In thee, O St. Joseph, thy children confide.

Be thou our protector, our father, our guide.

The flowers of innocent childhood we twine

In a fragrant white garland of love for thy shrine.
St. Joseph, who guided the Child on His way,
Oh, guide us and guard us and bless us, we pray!

Long ago thou didst teach the Child Jesus to speak,

Thy arms were His strength when His footsteps were weak;

Oh, lend us thy help in the days of our youth,

And teach us to walk in the pathway of truth.

St. Joseph, Christ's early protector and stay,
Protect us and save us from evil, we pray!

God saw thee so lowly, so constant, so mild,
And gave to thy keeping the Mother and Child;
With the poor little hut could no palace compare
When Jesus and Mary and Joseph were there.

Thy glory the angels flew earthward to see.

For the Lord of the heavens was subject to thee!

When the years glowing o'er us shall smoulder away,

When their ashes, down-drifting, shall crown us with gray,

Still loyal and true may we keep to the vow

To honor thy name as we lonor it now.

St. Joseph, who guided the Child on His way.
Oh, guide us at last to His presence, we pray!

H. W.

<L=S?=

THIRD ORDER CALENDAR

1. Ash Wednesday. Lent.

2. Bl. Agnes of Prague, Virgin
of the II Order.

3. Mysteries of the Way of the
Cross. (Gen. Absol. — Plen. Ind.)

5. St. John Joseph, Confessor of
the I Order. (Plen. Ind.)

6. St. Colette, Virgin of the II
Order. (Plen. Ind.)

9. St. Catherine of Bologna, Vir-
gin of the II Order. (Plen. Ind.)

11. BB. John Baptist and Chris-
topher, Confessors of the I Order.

13. Bl. Agnellus, Confessor of
the I Order.

18. Bl. Salvator, Confessor of
the I Order.

19. St. Joseph, Spouse of the B.
V. M. (Gen. Absol. Plen. Ind.)

20. BB. John, Mark, and Hippo-
lytus, Confessors of the I and III
Orders.

22. St. Benvenute, Bishop, Con-
fessor of the I Order. (Plen. Ind.)

24. Bl. Didacus Joseph, Confes-
sor of the I Order.

28. St. John Capistran, Confes-
sor of the I Order. (Plen. Ind.)

29. Bl. Jane Mary, Widow of the
II Order.

Besides the days indicated above,
Tertiaries can gain a Plenary In-
dulgence:

1. Every Tuesday, if, after Con-
fession and Holy Communion, they
visit a church of the First or Second
Order or of the Third Order Reg-
ular of St. Francis while the Bl.
Sacrament is exposed and there
pray for the intention of the Pope.

2. Once every month, on any
suitable day.

3. On the day of the monthly
meeting.

4. On the first Saturday of every
month. Conditions: Confession,
Communion, some prayers for the
intention of the Pope, and besides
some prayers in honor of the Im-
maculate Conception of the Bl. Vir-
gin Mary.

General Absolution, also called
Indulgenced Blessing, can be re-
ceived by Tertiaries, on March 3,
19, (20). This Absolution may be
imparted to Tertiaries also in the
confessional on the day preceding
these feasts or on the feasts them-
selves or on any day during the
week following.

FROM YELLOW RIVER TO GORDON

By Fr. Odoric, O. F. ML, Missionary

AT Yellow River I visited an

/\ Indian family by the name
1 Aof Anakwad, which in Eng-
lish means Cloud. Their home was
a neat little loghouse. Apparently,
they depended on the generosity of
Mr. Thomas Dunne for what they
needed to keep body and soul to-
gether. The reason why I remem-
ber this visit so distinctly is because
here I saw for the first time a
Powwow Drum, that mysterious in-
strument of noise which plays so
important a role in the life of the
superstitious pagan Indian.

Tom Anakwad or Cloud, then only
recently converted from paganism,
was not yet well grounded in Catho-
lic doctrine. What was worse, he
seemed to be entirely under the in-
fluence of his wife, who was still a
pagan and clung most tenaciously
to the superstitious practices of her
race. Hence it was that in a corner
of their one-roomed loghouse, on a
nicely ornamented shelf, the Clouds
kept carefully tucked a large drum.
To be constantly reminded of its
sacred character and to keep dust
and everything unholy from settling
on it, they had it completely envel-
oped in a white cloth. This cloth
was never removed ; nor was the
drum ever put to use except on the
occasion of a ceremonial dance.
Whence this great reverence among
the Indians for the drum? Why
that restriction in its use to the
dance? Following is The Story
which I learned later from the In-
dians themselves.

Years ago, when the Sioux were
on the warpath against the whites
and when many of the redmen fell
victims to the thundersticks of the
encroaching strangers, an Indian
woman, having become separated
from her people, was pursued by
the enemy. In her great plight she

ran into a lake and concealed her-
self under the large leaf of a water
lily. For four days she lay there
watching the movements of her
pursuers. Finally she got very hun-
gry and was on the point of suc-
cumbing, when she heard a voice
in the air, saying, "Are you hun-
gry?" But she was too frightened
to answer. Again the voice asked,
"Are you hungry?" Plucking up
courage, she replied, "He, nin ba-
kade — yes, I am hungry." Where-
upon the voice said kindly: "Come
out of the water then, my child, and
go yonder to where the soldiers are
eating." Noticing that she hesi-
tated, the Great Spirit — for it was
none other that spoke to her —
coaxed her, saying, "Don't be afraid,
my child. Just go over and eat
with them. Then come to that tree
there," pointing out a huge oak near
by, "I have something important to
tell you."

Thus encouraged, the Indian
woman went over to the soldiers
and, unseen by them, partook of
their frugal meal. Thereupon she
repaired to the tree where the Great
Spirit again appeared to her. Be-
side him on the ground stood a
drum. "Now," the spirit began,
"you Indians and pale-faces must no
longer wage war on one another. It
grieves me to see so much blood
spilled on earth. This must cease.
You must henceforth be friends and
live in peace." Then taking up the
drum he showed her how it was
made. "Take a board," he ex-
plained, "and bend it round till the
two ends meet. Then stretch a cow-
hide over the opening. Here are
the sticks with which to beat the
drum — this way — while the other
Indians sing and dance." And, to
the great surprise of the Indian
woman, the spirit began to sway to
108

and fro, meanwhile ejaculating a
succession of inarticulate sounds.l
All of a sudden the Great Spirit dis-
appeared and the Indian woman
found herself alone. Such is th©
origin of the Indian powwow drum.
Peace was established between the
redskins and the pale-faces; and
ever since the former celebrate
their love-feasts, singing, drumming
and dancing.

As late as 1904, when our Indians
at Odanah, Wisconsin, commemo-
rated the fiftieth anniversary of the
ceding of their lands to the United
States Government and of their con-
sequent settling at Bad River Reser-
vation, one of the principal dancers,
dressed up in full Indian regalia,
was my friend Tom Cloud. At pres-
ent, both he and his wife are per-
manently established at Odanah,
old Tom attending faithfully to his
Christian duties and his pagan wife
staying at home and guarding that
sacred heirloom of the family — the
powwow drum.

Time and again in after years, the
writer visited the Cloud family and
tried hard to bring Tom's wife to
the knowledge of the true faith.
She would always listen very atten-
tively to what I had to say and ap-
peared well disposed; but renounce
paganism and embrace Christianity
— sincerely I hope and pray that the
Good Shepherd will yet lead this
good soul into His fold.

Weary and foot-sore I returned
to the Mouth of Yellow River,
which, by the way, the Indians
called Obikoganagan (ankle) from
the fact that the hill, where the Yel-
low River joins the St. Croix, has
the shape of an ankle. One Bap-
tism, that of an adult whose name
was Ajiteiash (the cross-eyed), a
number of Confessions, and twenty-
one Communions — those were the

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109

spiritual fruits of my first mis-
sionary trip to the Mouth of the
Fellow River, just thirty-nine
fears ago this spring.

How glad I should have been,
lad I been able to find an Indian
o take me by boat up the St. Croix
o Nemekagon — "the place where
sturgeons are." My feet were very
sore from that long tramp to Yel-
ow Lake. But, somehow or other,
no Indian there was to do me
';his favor. So I was compelled
( ;o go by "the Marrowbone stage,"
despite aching ankles and blis-
tered soles. Noticing that I
.imped and divining the cause, an
jindian woman presented me with
ii new pair of moccasins. These
jlndian-made slippers are excel-
lent footwear in the house, but
miserable substitutes for thick-
soled shoes on the rough and
rocky road. Hence they brought Ut-
ile, if any, relief. But I soon forgot
[all aches in the struggle to keep up
kith old Sajagens, my Indian guide.
Though laden with my heavy mis-
sion satchel, he hit the trail like the
Twentieth Century Limited.
I Never will I forget that Night of

!woe at Nemekagon.
Immediately on reaching the In-
dian settlement, I went over to one
of the tepees, to offer priestly as-
sistance to an Indian girl who was
dying the slow death of a consump-
tive. How happy she and her folks
[were to see me, and how readily I
iheeded their invitation and squat-
ted down on the mat in the corner.
But alas! in the center of this In-
dian "hospital," a fire was burning;
every now and then a gust of wind
would stir the glowing coals and
scatter smoke and ashes into my
face. I tried to conceal my discom-
fort. The Indian is very discerning,
however, and after a while I was in-
vited to a wigwam that was unoc-
upied. As the event showed, it
tvas but jumping out of the frying
pan into the fire. I found the wig-
wam unoccupied in the full sense
Df the word — there was neither
stove, nor fire, nor light. I groped
ibout in the dark and at last felt
;ome blankets on the ground. Al-
;hough they were wet from a recent
rain, I crept under them But they
)ffered little comfort; for the night
vas cold and a wet nasty wind kept
>lowing through the wigwam. I was

just counting the hours till morn-
ing and wondering how my bones
would be feeling by then, when an
Indian, carrying a lantern, appeared
at the opening of the wigwam and
bade me come over to a frame house
that afforded better shelter. It be-
longed to a pagan Indian, he said,
who with his family had already
retired for the night ; but there
would be no objection to my seeking
a dry and comfortable bed on the
floor behind the warm stove. Such
is Indian hospitality, unkempt but
honest, pinched but cheery — the
heart of the giver is what counts,
not the quality of the gift. More
than once, during the many years
I lived and labored among the abori-
gines of northern Wisconsin, was
my heart made happy by the win-
ning smile of Indian hospitality.
The Indian has bad traits and
wicked habits, true; in this respect
he shares in the effects of Adam's
fall, just like his white neighbor.
But not all in the Indian is sin and
corruption. To hold that "the dead
Indian is the best Indian" is un-
charitable, to say the least, consid-
ering that much of his present day
indigence, spiritual as well as ma-
terial, must be traced back to the
whiskey bottle for which he bar-
tered with his white brother.

But to continue with our story:
Early next morning, old Sajagens
and I set out on our trip to Gordon.

Three miles from Nemekagon, at
More's Stopping Place, as it was

Photo to Grace Horn.

called, I celebrated holy Mass.
Thereupon we luckily did full jus-
tice to a substantial breakfast of
pork and beans. Luckily, I say, for
the long and weary tramp through
the forest was not made without a
delaying adventure. We were in
the depth of the forest when all of
a sudden heavy black clouds began
to cover the sky and an occasional
rumbling sound told us that mis-
chief was brewing overhead. Be-
fore long the rain came down in
torrents. It seemed as if the flood-
gates of heaven had been thrown
open to terrify the lonely wanderers
and wash them from the face of the
earth. There was no use seeking
shelter under the thick foliage. We
splashed right on through mud and
rain, looking for all the world like
a pair of drowned cats. Still, this
drenching was not so bad, after all.
The day was exceedingly hot and
sultry, so that I really welcomed
this open air "bath" as a blessing in
disguise. Not so, however, that
Long "Short-cut" which we took to
gain time.

We were some seven miles from
Gordon when a bright idea percol-
ated through the shaggy locks of
Sajagens. Turning to me, he said,
"Gwaiakoshkada — let's take a short
cut." My tired legs seconded the
motion and off we were, leaving the
traveled wagon road and cutting
through the dense forest — the stur-
dy Indian in advance with my heavy
satchel and the missioner straggling

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FRANCISCAN HERALD

March, 19J2

Photo by Grare Horn.

after as best he could — over tree
stumps and fallen branches, through
grimy puddles and soaked brush-
wood, now along this lake and then
around that, these ten minutes in a
northerly direction and the next fif-
teen due south-west. Every nowi
and then Sajagens would halt, look
around, and then continue. From
the expression on his face I knew
what was bothering him and could
not help laughing when he finally
informed me that he had lost the,
way. "Will we ever get to Gordon?"
I said to myself after roaming for
several hours. To make a long
story short, we did finally get there;
but the reader must not ask when
and how. "Well, Sajagens," I said,
patting him on the shoulder, "that,
was the longest 'short-cut' I everi
took."

GREAT JOY AT ST. JOHN'S MISSION

By Fr. Antonine, O. F. M., Missionary

THOSE of our readers and
friends who, last Christmas,
contributed so generously to-
ward the restoration of St. John's
Mission Chapel, will surely be glad
to learn full particulars regarding
our recent triumph in a field other
than the spiritual. It goes to show
what can be done with the Pimas
and Papagos not only in the spiri-
tual but also in the material way.

One of the outstanding features
of the Arizona Industrial Week,
held in Phoenix in the second week
of last November, was a parade
through the streets of the city. The
purpose of it was to acquaint the
people, who had gathered from all
parts of the state, with the various
industrial enterprises and achieve-
ments of Salt River Valley. Every
phase of industry was represented.
In the field of transportation, for
instance, they saw what rapid prog-
ress had been made in the state —
from the first wheelbarrow that
was used in Phoenix years ago to
deliver ice, to the finest and latest

models of high-priced automobiles.

The larger schools of Phoenix and
vicinity also were requested to take
part in the parade. Among these
were the Union High School, with
an enrollment of 1,500 pupils; the
Phoenix Indian Boarding School, a
government institution, totalling
about 800 children; and our St.
John's Indian Mission School, with
its 425 boarders.

Only through the kindness of the
Governor of of Arizona, the Honor-
able J. B. Campbell, who takes a
lively interest in St. John's, was it
made possible for all our children
to take part. This, by the way,
was the first time our work was
heralded in the streets of Phoenix
at a public demonstration. Some
months previous to Industrial Week,
Governor Campbell favored us with
a visit. So pleased was he with
what he saw of our achievements
and so confident regarding the pos-
sibilities of the Mission, that he ex-
pressed his desire of seeing an
exhibit of our work, during Indus-

trial Week, adding that for the.
transportation of the children he
would make all provision.

Accordingly, on November 11, at
seven o'clock in the morning, sixj
giant State Highway trucks, each
provided with a huge trailer, ar-
rived at St. John's. Into these our
children climbed, laughing and chat-
ting, but at the same time observing
the finest order. The reader can
picture to himself that eleven mile
ride to Phoenix; the surprise of the
people when the trucks drove into
the city; the friendly applause with
which they welcomed the laughing
and singing children; and the com-
ments passed on their neat and'
healthy appearance.

At ten o'clock, the parade, headed
by Governor Campbell and other
State officials, began to move
through the streets of the- capital.
Besides the ranks of boys and girls,
wearing their Mission uniform, we
had three floats. The first of these,
heading our section in the parade,
pictured Indian life among the Pi-

March, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

111

nas and Papagos of some fifty years
igo. It represented an old hut of
)rushwood, decorated with hides of
;he wild boar, coyote, and fox. In
"ront of the hut sat with her daugh-
;ers the mother of a numerous typi-
:al Indian family. Their jet black
lair, as in days gone by, hung pro-
fusely over their shoulders and their
'ace was grotesquely painted after
Indian fashion. Mother and daught-
ers were engaged in making bas-
ietry, while the father and sons,
irmed with bow and arrow, were
)ut among the mesquite and sage
jrush in search of game.

In sharp contrast with this life-
like picture of olden times, followed
i company of twenty-four boys,
irilled especially for the occasion,
rhey went through the many and
ntricate formations without a flaw.
Xext came the Mission's military
band of twenty-six pieces, playing
jatriotic airs and popular marches.
i3oys in khaki and girls in white
bame next, four abreast, keeping
itep with the music of the band.
St it be said that the order and
;liscipline our children manifested
Was perfect. All along the line of
spectators, their engaging appear-
ance elicited a most hearty ap-
)lause. Two very impressive floats
)rought up the rear of our section.
:rhe one showed a modern school
room with sixteen tots listening at-
tentively to what their teacher was
Selling them. The other float ex-
hibited the agricultural products
vhich the concerted efforts of our

Indians realize on our Mission
ranch. Here the people of Phoenix
saw that it is not only the soul of
the Indian we are looking after but
his temporal and material advance-
ment as well.

After the parade, the Governor
publicly praised our children for
their splendid exhibit. Then, to
show his appreciation, he instructed
the truck drivers to take them for
a trip to the principal places of in-
terest in Phoenix. This was done
after lunch, to the great delight of
all. Thereupon the trucks brought
them back to the Mission — to their
home — to the Fathers and the Sis-
ters who love and care for them as
their own.

lv ■■$' ! *

But this was not all. Another
great surprise, great because entire-
ly unlooked-for, was in store for'us.
On the day after the parade, Fr.
Vincent, the superintendent of St.
John's, received word from the State
officials that those who were ap-
pointed to judge on the merits of the
various exhibits, had awarded the
silver cup to St. John's Mission.
What an intense joy that caused the
Fathers and the Sisters, and how
the children gave vent to their feel-
ings when they heard of it, need not
be described. St. John's Mission is
now the proud possessor of the sil-
ver cup which stands about four-
teen inches high and bears the fol-
lowing inscription:

AWARDED

BEST SCHOOL SECTION

Phoenix, November 11, 1921

When you make it your rule to per-
form a definite set of actions ; when
you publicly pledge yourself to carry
out that rule ; when others are
pledged with you to that rule; when,
finally, you have your and their con-
certed prayers to aid you, then you
will make good your resolution to
lead a Christian life. Now, in the
Third Order, the so-called "Divine
Office" recited each day aids you to
carry out the pious resolutions to
which you pledge yourself, with the
other members, on entering the novi-
tiate of the order, and more espe-
cially on making what is called the
"profession," or actual pledge.

— A Call and the Answer.

Tfcfta

WHO WINS

By Blanche Weitbrec
III

GEOFFREY followed Dr. Kosaloff upstairs into
. the studio the next morning, after a bad half
hour at Lucas's bedside. Nothing could be
elicited from Lucas himself, save an occasional gasp,
when the pain was too much for him. He was silent
and sullenly defiant, watching both Geoffrey and the
doctor with suspicious, resentful eyes; but Kosaloff
had made a thorough examination, and Geoffrey hung
upon his verdict apprehensively.

He paced the studio up and down for a few mo-
ments, while Geoffrey sat waiting. He stopped pres-
ently, before the fireplace, resting an arm upon the
mantel and staring down into the flames. At last he
looked up.

"I think," he said slowly, "I think I could save the
boy, if he would let me."

"Save ?" Geoffrey's heart stopped, then ham-
mered at his throat.

"Yes. This fall is going to make a hopeless cripple
of him, unless — well, I'm not omnipotent, of course;
but I think I can almost promise a practically
complete cure, if — but I can't chain him down,
you know, and cure him in spite of himself. True, I
can put him in a cast, and strap him to a table, and
put a corps of nurses on guard ; but — " He shrugged.

"You mean ?"

"I might accomplish something, but the chances are
in favor of — well, of his burning right out, like a
pinwheel fastened to a stick .... Poor little
beggar!"

Geoffrey sat silent, perplexed and wretched. He
felt as if he were being strangled by an invisible net.
At every turn he was foiled and baffled. The more he
fought, the tighter grew the bondage.

"Do you know at all what is wrong with your friend,
Geoffrey?" demanded the doctor, abruptly facing
about and frowning into Geoffrey's startled eyes. "I
don't ask you to violate a confidence, but if there is
any hint you can give me to piece out .... I
have only deduction and inference to go on, you see.
It's not enough — not for my present needs."

Geoffrey's eyes fell. "I — I don't know," he faltered.
All the hideous fancies and fears that he had so reso-
lutely put away during the past months came crowd-

ing around him. jeering and leering. How could he 1
tell Kosaloff what he fancied, what he thought, what;
he feared? He dropped his forehead on his hands.

"Very well," said the doctor, after a pause. "It's
as you see fit; but you're tying my hands. If on«
could gain his confidence — ah, the poor little beggar!"

"Doctor .... if you could .... I don't know.
Really, there's nothing I can say. But if you could
tell me what it is you think "

"What I think about Lucas?" The keen eyes were
boring into him.

Geoffrey nodded, gulping. Why was he so afraid?

If it was true But what could Kosaloff know of

these things?

"What I think about Lucas," repeated the Russian.j
"Yes. I will tell you. He is at war — at war, and thei
game is up. He's fighting in the last trench now, and;
he knows it. Who wins?" The big man flung out hid
hands with a dramatic gesture. "Voila tout ! It was,
finished before it began. Perhaps he knows thatj
also."

"At war " Geoffrey's voice sounded hoarse in

his own ears, and far off, like the voice of someone
else. "At war "

"With his God! Oh — or himself, or his soul, Of
whatever you like to name it. It's all one, really. No,
I'm not talking pantheism. I'm only using terms tol
express But I see that you agree with me."

Agree! Geoffrey lay back in his chair, closing hisl
eyes. The cold-blooded brute! He could say these!
things — could stand there, and say these things . . . .j

"You think me heartless," the cool, poised voice cut 1
in on the confusion of his brain. "But rememberl
that my viewpoint is not yours. To you it is personal
— individual. To me it is simply a principle. God?
What is God? Creative force? First cause? YoA
cannot define God any better than I can. My God is
not your God, your God is not Lucas's God. No! No
two men worship the same God, if it comes to a point
of philosophic accuracy. I can't accept your creeds
and dogmas, Geoffrey; but I can recognize the truth
that underlies all creeds and all dogmas. All menj
recognize it. All men must deal with it, in their lives)
and in their deaths. You are afraid for Lucas, and 1

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you are right to be afraid. No man can win by war;
it is by peace that we go on to victory. Lucas is
fighting against impossible odds. Who wins?"

Geoffrey looked up at him hopelessly. "I — I don't
think I quite understand," he murmured. "Of course
it's a personal thing — a question of each soul —
but "

"Of heaven, or of hell — yes — of the individual
to be saved or damned. Well ! From my standpoint,
Lucas is already damned. I don't know what may
come after this life ; but I can see what is going on
now, under my eyes, and that's sufficient. For what
comes after death — well, that's not my affair."

Geoffrey sighed. "We're talking at cross purposes,"
he said. "I'm a Christian. These are .... eter-
nal issues. What's the use of arguing? I can't
see the value of your Oh, what is the use?"

"I didn't mean to argue." The doctor's voice was
gentle. "Well, leave it. But the question is — Lu-
cas. As I read the signs, here is a soul white-hot with
rebellion, rigid with defiance. A man at war with
God — hating God. Will you tell me that to hate
God is not a state of damnation? And what's to be
done? It's Lucas's battle. Yet .... we might
help. Are we to stand by and see him go under?"

"What is there that you think we can do?" asked
Geoffrey, dully. "How can we help?"

"I want his confidence. Can't you get it for me?
Oh, I know you feel it's useless; but try — try once
more. He's afraid of me, because he can't fool me.
If we can take the hatred and the suspicion and the
fear out of him, we have gone far toward making a
well man of him. I'm not wholly a materialist, you
see, though you may call me a pagan and an atheist."
He smiled, whimsically.

"As far as I can make out," he went on, "the boy
is possessed with the idea of God as his enemy — a
giant, so to speak, with a club, who is after him,
and whom he dares to do His worst. H'm ....
That's the way I see it. You don't know anything
about this leg of his, Geoffrey, I suppose; how it
happened; what it was that crippled him? I under-
stand that, when you saw him two years ago, it was
a. perfectly sound limb, so that it's probably not any-
thing constitutional; an accident, undoubtedly; some
diseased condition of the bone may have developed.
So you see, I can't tell much till I can get an X-ray.
And what can I do with a patient in Lucas's state?
It's cruel to use force. You saw it this morning and
yesterday. I can't go on at that rate. Besides, it
would pull his nerves to shreds, in no time. Poor
little chap!"

"But, doctor .... what is it that you want of me?
I don't see "

"Can't you get him to talk? He's eating his heart
out. Make him talk; make him tell you his troubles.
Soften him, that's all I want. If he softens to you,
the first step is accomplished. Yes, I know he loves
you; but he's hard, even to you. No; I'm not plan-
ning any spy tricks; you needn't look at me like that.
Can't you trust me, either?"

Kosaloff's face and the words he had spoken were
uppermost in Geoffrey's mind all afternoon, as he
sat by Lucas with a book, trying to while away the
time for the sufferer. Lucas was very quiet, and it
was difficult to say how acute his pain might be. He
was obviously repressing himself, holding his pro-
testing nerves sternly in check. The doctor had
given him a mild sedative; but its effects were wear-
ing off. His flushed temples and bright tired eyes
betrayed a good deal.

"Geoffrey," said Lucas, all at once, as Geoffrey
paused in his reading to turn a page, "why do you set
that man on me? I can't prevent it, I suppose; but
I'd like to know why you do it."

Geoffrey put down his book, staring his amazement.

"Lucas! Set Kosaloff on you! Why, what do you
mean?"

"You know I don't want him. You know how I
feel about — about things of that sort. I mean ....
Haven't I told you before that I . . . . Yet you even
help; you even hold me .... You make me take his
pills and things ! Don't you think I have any personal
rights? Why do you do it? You know I can't fight
you; and as for that big — that big elephant . . .
Why do you do it?"

"Lucas! Why? Because I want you to get well.
You don't expect me to sit by and watch you — die,
maybe, without trying to save you? I only want to
save you pain "

"You saved me that, didn't you, this morning and
yesterday?"

"Don't be childish. If you won't behave like a
reasonable creature "

"If I haven't a right to my own body, what rights
have I left in this world?"

"Lucas, why do you act like this? What per-
verted notions are possessing you? Why shouldn't
you have medical and surgical attention, if you need
it?"

"Surgical?" Lucas flashed a look at him. "Oh!
That's next on the program, is it?"

Geoffrey leaned over, taking one of the hot hands
between his own. "Lucas, my .... my dear fel-
low . . . ."

"What is it he wants to do?" The voice was edged
like a razor. Geoffrey shivered. Ah, how that hurt!
But Lucas didn't mean it. Geoffrey met the hostile
eyes steadily.

"He says he can — can cure you, he thinks, Lucas,
if you will only let him."

"Cure?"

"That's what he said this morning."

"Cure me, so that I won't be lame? So I won't
have any pain — at all — ever? What rot! He wants
to try some beastly experiment on me; that's what
legs like mine are for, you know. These doctors

are almost as clever as " He broke off, looking

wickedly at Geoffrey. "They work hand in hand with
— er — Fate, don't they? She provides the legs, the
obliging old dame "

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"Lucas, listen to me a minute."

"Well, what is it? Kosaloff can cure me. What
else?"

" 'A practically complete cure' — that was what
he said. Lucas, I — I'm sorry; but don't you know
that this fall is — well, is going to make you ....
much worse, unless you let Kosaloff try — Oh, Lucas,
if you'd be reasonable! Why will you make every-
thing so hard?"

The hand between Geoffrey's hands twitched, but
Geoffrey held it fast. He would not let this mo-
ment slip away; perhaps something might come of
it. The feverish fingers relaxed, and Lucas lay silent,
his eyes fixed, the heart-breaking line on his brow,
his lips a little parted, his breathing quick. Geoffrey
could feel the pulse in his wrist beating rapidly,
unevenly, and he sat motionless, waiting. A word,
of which he was scarcely more than half aware, re-
peated itself somewhere deep in his consciousness
over and over with the beating of Lucas's pulse — a
word that saints have loved above all words — a word
whose power can close the Doors of Doom ....

Lucas turned and looked at him. "You needn't sit
there and pray over me," he rapped out, viciously.
Geoffrey jumped, with a quick intake of his breath.
The onslaught was so sudden, so surprising.

"I — but I didn't say a thing." He felt as if he had
been struck, and stared blankly at the other.

"Oh, you can't fool me like that! I know all per-
fectly well. You can save your energy. I don't want
your prayers. Do you think I'll ask favors of — ? I
won't! He's got me down; let Him tear me to bits
and enjoy Himself!"

Geoffrey dropped the hand he held and moved
back instinctively. "Lucas! Lucas! How — how
dare you . . . ."

The sick man, with a furious effort, raised himself
on his elbow. His face was twisted with pain; his
eyes narrowed to slits of green fire.

"I — I hate Him," he said, his voice scarcely more
than a whisper. "Don't you know that? Don't you?
Kosaloff knows. Hasn't he told you? Now you can
kick me out and run no danger of contamination!"

It seemed to Geoffrey, in the void that opened
around him, as if the world were frozen, locked in a
deathly embrace of ice. He had seen a world so
frozen, somewhere, before. Where was it that he had
walked among his fellow-creatures, prisoned in eter-
nal cold? No; that was Dante, Dante who had seen
a vision of the nether hell. Ah, God! no, not that!
He could not see, as Dante had seen, faces that he
knew, in hell, and live! He would follow a dear face
down to hell and beat upon the portal, till Eternity
walked backward and gave up her prey.

The icy grip about his heart loosened. He slipped
to his knees beside the bed. Lucas made no resist-
ance, as he pushed him gently back upon the pillows
and slid an arm under the quivering shoulders. So
he knelt, minute after minute, quite still, holding
Lucas half raised against him, as one might hold a
sick child. Gradually he felt the nervous tension of

the slim body relax and saw the gleam fade from
the eyes. A faint sigh escaped Lucas's lips ; he turned
his face, hiding it on Geoffrey's breast.

Geoffrey could never remember how it began or
what had been told him, up to the point where Lucas
was working as a wood-cutter in a Brazilian forest.
He was evidently at low-water: it must have been
after his good friend had gone off to New York, leav-
ing him sick and on the edge of financial disaster.
But Lucas had wanted him to go; he had begged him
not to let the opportunity escape. It was mere folly
to fret about what might or might not have happened
if one had or had not done this or that! Yesterday
morning, for instance, if he had remembered that
loose step ; if he had had it fixed ; if he had gone down-
stairs to get that sweater for Lucas; how different
everything might have been ! Just a little thing
like that could matter so much.

Once more he came back to Lucas's narrative. He
must listen ; this was what Kosaloff wanted — the key
to Lucas's troubles. It might be that he could find a
way out.

Lucas was clinging fast to him in a pathetic, child-
ish abandon. His reserve was broken up at last ; he
talked feverishly, his face buried in Geoffrey's coat,
and Geoffrey had to bend his head to catch the half
intelligible sentences. He had lost the thread again.
What was Lucas saying about ....

"Hours, Geoffrey! They said it was ten hours,
but it was years — ten years — twenty — fifty! In the
dark, with the night sounds of the forest and the
night smells, and with shapes that crept into the
clearing and crept out again .... Maybe they
weren't real, all of them ; I don't know ; I was half out

of my head, you see, with the pain and fright; and

oh, you can't understand! You never could under-
stand ! I suppose I fainted, off and on ; it's all rather
mixed in my mind. But I always came back. There
wasn't much I missed. That's where the fun comes
in, you know; oh, yes, that's where the fun comes
in . . . ."

Geoffrey stroked the soft black hair, anxious and
puzzled. "Yes, I know," he murmured.

"Ah ! Do you ?" Lucas began to laugh.

"Hush," commanded Geoffrey, tightening his hold.
"Hush . . . ." If he could piece out the story . . . .

"Ten hours," repeated Lucas, a shudder running
through him. "Ten hours, crushed into the mud,
Geoffrey — crushed into the mud and slime, with a
seventy-five foot tree across your leg — as a reward
for doing another man's work, for helping out a yel-
low jackal that wasn't human enough to say 'thanks'
— oh, Geoffrey! When I looked up and saw that
monstrous thing toppling down on me — when I
slipped and fell It was a thousand years be-
fore the crash and the shock; and when I found my-
self again, and it was dark — quite dark — and I knew
that the others had gone, that they hadn't heard —
hadn't seen — perhaps hadn't bothered to notice. . . .

"There was that crucifix I had around my neck —
you remember? I thought of it right away, when I

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ot my senses a bit; and I raised myself, enough to
et hold of it. Instinct, I imagine. I was half mad
'ith the agony and the fever, and I had a foolish
lea that something might happen — a ministering
ngel, you know, or something of that kind.
"Well! Things don't happen, not even when a fel-
>w has loved God and no other love, for all his life;
enied himself and his desires, and lived the very
est he could. Ah, it takes something like this to
lake a man understand the fiendishness of the whole
;heme! Is there a God? Was he there, that night?
asten to me!" He had flung himself back in Geof-
rey's arms, and now stared up into Geoffrey's face
'ith a dreadful expression, like a man who looks on
ome unspeakable sight.
"Listen to me! You think you love God! You've
ever loved Him any better than I did. Good, merci-

iul, just .... 'As a father pitieth his children.'

hen He tramples you in the mud — oh, wait till it
omes home to you — that's all ! You can always ex-
lain away someone else's torture, but when you're

n the rack yourself "

| "Lucas, Lucas! You're sick; you're feverish. You
! iust be quiet now and rest — — "

"What did I ever do to Him but love Him? Do you
[lean to tell me that there's any God, any beneficent
Iteing who would permit such? If there is a God,
[hen He's a wicked God and I hate Him! Why, He

ven let His own Son die by torture "

"Lucas! That's blasphemy! I can't let you talk

. You don't know what you're saying."

"Geoffrey, I tell you, it's wicked — it's wicked to

elieve in your kind of a God. He's worse than the

evil, because He pretends to be good and is all the

ime grinning at you. You don't see Him, because

our head's down and you're on your knees; but if

ou get up and look at Him straight — then you'll see

-then He can't fool you any more. He can't even

lake you believe He's real !"

A heavy silence settled on them, as the passionate

oice ceased. Geoffrey could feel his own heart

ounding against Lucas's body, and his hold tightened

) a convulsive straining. He felt numbed and a little

hilled; he was definitely conscious of only one idea —

sistance. He was fighting something very strong

nd very dangerous. He was tired; but there was no

me to rest now — he must hold on and keep going.

. . Lucas put up his hands, presently, panting.
"Geoffrey — you're hurting me!" The brown fin-
ers pressed against his chest; and something in
leir pressure, the attempt to escape him, stirred an
notion in Geoffrey that had been smouldering un-
Dticed under the thick layer of that curious resist-
ice, that sense of battle, of conflict. He felt angry
unreasonably, furiously angry.
"Be quiet," he snapped. "Lie still! If I drop you,
Ju'll go over the edge, and then what can I do? I
m't go after you, can I?"

Had he said something absurd? It wasn't what
5 had meant to say. But — but it was true ! Why, it
as all he could do to hold Lucas up, with all that
riggling and fussing — little fool!

"Be quiet!" he repeated.
"Geoffrey! You're hurting me!"
"Be still! Stop your scratching! You can't get
away. I won't let you get away, you — you tiger-cat!
You think you can jump in the dark and land on your

feet; but you can't — you'll break your back "

He was aware, then, of Lucas's eyes that met his so
strangely. The brown fingers, still pressing against
him, quivered with the continued effort. Yes, of

course, he was hurting Lucas; but if he let go

How ridiculous! Was he dreaming? Had he been
asleep, kneeling there beside the bed? What was it
they were saying just now?

"I — I beg your pardon," he stammered. "I — I"

He felt confused and dizzy. Lucas had been saying
something; but he could not quite remember what it
was.

"Gofredo mio "

Yes; that was better. The slender figure grew
heavy in his arms. He looked down. Lucas was
smiling at him — a rather wan, uncertain smile. He
seemed to be limp with exhaustion.

"I — I beg your pardon," faltered Geoffrey again.

"I — I didn't mean to — to hurt you "

"But you're mashing me," protested Lucas, faintly.
He had ceased struggling and gave himself up to
Geoffrey's violence. "You're hurting me, Gofredo —
please! What— what are you trying to do?"

Geoffrey's head cleared. He released Lucas and
stood up, slowly.

"I'm sorry I'd better go away and let you

sleep." How tired he was ! What had he been doing,
to get so tired? "I'll give you some bromide. Would
you like a glass of water? Is the pain bad?"

"Geoffrey, I'm dreadfully sorry if I've upset you.

I'm afraid I've said a lot of things But it's

your fault — yours and Kosaloff's. Now you know —
you've found out what you wanted, haven't you?"

The next few days always remained in Geoffrey's
mind as a treadmill of stupidities, mechanically
enacted, while one waited, waited, for something real
to happen. Kosaloff came and went, through these
days, big and somber and quiet, dropping now and
then a reassuring hand on Geoffrey's shoulder or an
encouraging word in Geoffrey's ear.

"Patience," was his watchword. "Patience! Twice
he had broken a little, even to me. Let him be; it
will come right. He is no longer a mystery, and
thus he has given away the keenest weapon he held
against us."

"He regrets it, perhaps," suggested Geoffrey.
"Sometimes I think he's sorry. I wish, almost, that I
didn't know .... anything."
Kosaloff shrugged.
"It is necessary to know," he said.
The day came when Lucas surrendered. Geoffrey,
at his bedside, looking from the frail, helpless figure
to the towering Russian opposite, was smitten with
something like shame. They had just been too much,

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the two of them. It was all in their hands now. Two
against one!

"Well, we've decided to be reasonable," the doctor
was explaining to Geoffrey, while Lucas watched him
with wide, fascinated eyes. "We're going to try out
what science and rational behavior can do for us,
aren't we, son?" He took up one of the limp, slim
wrists, touching the pulse in casual fashion. "And
so, we're going to ask Geoffrey to get us ready for a
trip to the City to-morrow." His tone was half play-
ful, half tender; his manner that of one dealing with
a fractious child. Geoffrey drew a long sobbing
breath, and Lucas's eyes turned on him.

"Yes," said Lucas.

"You — you'll operate?" Geoffrey managed, after a
moment, choking.

"Well, not immediately. We must get an X-ray,
and — and think things out a bit. Then, we'll see."

"You'll come with me, Geoffrey, won't you?" The
hand that Kosaloff was not holding met Geoffrey's,
and a wave of color swept the dark face. "It will be

so — so tiresome " The sentence trailed off to the

accompaniment of the little beloved trick that raised
one eyebrow and twitched the corners of the mouth
upward. "I — I can't be good, without you, Gofredo
m-mib "

The X-ray proved the accuracy of a theory on
which Kosaloff was building. It was all very tech-
nical when put into words, Geoffrey did not under-
stand it at all, except that Kosaloff had found what
he expected, and that he was prepared to go through
with the proposed operation. Lucas was quite indif-
ferent. Since his submission to the superior forces
which beset him, he had followed a line of least re-
sistance, veering abruptly from sullenness and sus-
picion to an imperturbable gaiety, as brilliant as the
brightness of polished brass. He obeyed orders with
a shrug and hid his pain under a running fire of non-
sense; but Geoffrey felt that he was as far as ever
from a desirable frame of mind.

"At least," said Kosaloff, "he's let down the bars so
we can work. Be satisfied. 'Sufficient unto the day — '
Is that it? Why don't you use your faith?"

"Doctor," said Geoffrey, "if there were any way,
before the operation, to bring him to his senses ....
I'm afraid."

"Afraid? Well — there's danger, it's true, in every
operation. This is going to be a long pull, too; I'm
not denying that. And, of course, the shock. And
there's the anaesthetic. Still, I don't think there's
any particular cause for alarm. His heart seems

sound. He's very nervous, but What is it that

you want?"

"I want him to confess and be friends with God,"
said Geoffrey, bluntly. "I want our Lord with him,
when he goes on the operating table."

"Ah! Now you're beyond my depth."

"But can't you help me?"

"How? I would be glad to." It was sincerely spoken;
but Geoffrey sighed. A man born blind had as much
knowledge of the miracle of sunset or of the colors

in a field of wild flowers, as Kosaloff possessed knowl*
edge of the supernatural.

"I would be very glad, indeed," repeated the doctor;

"Well, do you think it would do any harm if we —
if I — if you — were to speak to him, just quietly 1

"We? I?" echoed Kosaloff, frowning a little.
"Surely, you don't regard me as a possible success in
the role of "

"I thought he might listen to you," murmured
Geoffrey lamely.

"Yes. I'd be convincing, wouldn't I?"

"Suppose we got a — well, suppose we got a
priest ?"

Kosaloff regarded him curiously.

"Can you think of anyone else who might take youn
job for you ?" he inquired.

Geoffrey walked up to the hospital from his hotel,l
the night before the operation, in a state of distress.;
He had tried to dodge the issue and persuade him-;
self that he wasn't called upon to be a missionary;'
that it was Lucas's affair; that Lucas was old enough
to know his own mind; that he had a tongue in hisi
head and, if he wanted a priest, could say so. "He'll
probably want to kick me out if I interfere," said]
Geoffrey to himself. Nevertheless, he entered Lucas'si
room, aware that he would not leave it till he had'
done his best.

Lucas was lying propped up on his pillows, and a
little nurse was playing cards with him. He was veryj
pale and seemed to be suffering; but he greeted'
Geoffrey with a wave of the hand.

"I was wishing for you," he declared. "Miss Pitti,
Sing here was just about to telephone for you,
Thanks, Pitti-pitti, you may escape if you like. Isnf
she a duck?" as the door closed upon the dimpling
maiden. "I'm really having a — what is it? — a corking
time, you know."

"Have they made you ready for the sacrifice?"
asked Geoffrey.

"Indeed, they have. I've been attended to by three
orderlies and four nurses — or was it five? — and I'n
swathed in chemically pure bandages from the arm;
down. I feel exactly like a royal Egyptian
mummy "

"You know, I infer, exactly how they felt," inter
posed Geoffrey.

"Rather! I've always had a fondness for the ole
fellows. They went down 'the silent halls of death
in such style. I am happy to imitate them."

"Cheerful, on the eve of battle, aren't you.?
Geoffrey made an effort to speak lightly. This hare
frivolity of the Spaniard was less easy to meet, he
thought, than sulkiness or anger.

"Cheerful? Never more so. I've reached a point
now, when I can't imagine an existence apart fron
doctors and nurses and nasty-tasting messes; anc'
I'd be lonesome if someone didn't come in and hammei
my spine every day."

"You're a grateful little thing, at all events," rcj
torted Geoffrey, stung to irritability.

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"Ah, — Gofredo— — " Repentant fingers closed on
eoffrey's. "Forgive me ! I know you mean the
»ry best for me."

"Let it go at that," nodded Geoffrey.
"I wonder," mused Lucas, "were the Egyptian
ngs ever petted by little girls with dimples, when
ley were getting ready to pop off? I suppose there
r as 'perfume and sad sound,' and torches were
ghted. And then they smothered the subject in
ntiseptic bands ; and there was a procession, with
ppropriate wailing. Couldn't you arrange a pro-

sssion for me, Geoffrey, in case ? I've had the

reliminary doings, so I think I ought to have a pro-
Bssion. And I'm sure you could do the wailing "

"Lucas," said Geoffrey, softly, "don't you think you
light find it possible to make some other preparations
ot known to the ancient Egyptians? Or is it enough
lat you are bathed and bandaged?"

There was silence. Lucas shifted a little on his
Mows. The gray eyes narrowed ominously, though
le baffling smile still hovered on his lips.
' "I was beginning to think that we'd succeed in
'etting through without that," he remarked.

Geoffrey stiffened,
i "I beg your pardon," he began, elaborately. Then
|e leaned forward and caught both Lucas's hands.
I "Lucas, Lucas! Please listen to me! You're hang-
Lig on the ragged edge of things. Why do you per-
sist in taking a chance when there's not the slightest
|scuse for it? Is it sheer bravado, or mere stubborn-
ess, or pride, or simply spiritual sloth? It's not
iiss of faith; no man who has lost faith in God hates
[od. You're wandering in a swamp of badly tangled

sychology and very smelly philosophy. Won't you

|t me help you out?"

I "You?" Lucas's smile deepened. "What is it

|iat you can do?"

I "I can fetch a priest, for one thing, by walking

|)wn the passage here and turning a corner."

j "Simple," reflected Lucas. "Very simple. You

i ive what I should term a direct mind, Gofredo mio.

:iam bound in conscience, however, to assure you

iat if you bring any such person within reach of my
I'xellent teeth, I'll bite." He closed his eyes. "I'm
hmdaged like a mummy, and I'm sure I couldn't
Cck; but I still possess teeth and claws. 'Thus do
1 ie in the jungle!' Gofredo, I regret to say that for
Be first time in our acquaintance I find you a bore."

; He began to laugh, as Geoffrey sat motionless,
Baring blankly down at the uncarpeted floor.
I! "I gave you credit for more tact, amigo," observed
Eicas. "Ah, well — let us not quarrel when 'Love lifts
■) her face to kiss the lips of Death.' Here's Pitti
Bng to wish us pleasant dreams. You'd better take
Be hint and disappear before she puts you out. Good-
pght, old man, and don't forget the procession, with
Its of noise. Or would you prefer a bonfire and an
'•iportunity for sutteef There — get along — the King

Uuld sleep."

(To be continued)

MAKING PORT

By P. D. Murphy

THE huge liner was rolling reluctantly in the
swell of the channel, as though it resented the
boisterous play of the waves. It was near mid-
night. Up and down the deck Cai-mody strolled,
smoking a cigar before turning in; while his com-
panion, Tom Kelly, stood watching the lights of Cher-
bourg that shone dimly in the distance against the
thickening mist.

"Bit of a swell, Tom," Carmody remarked, leaning
one hand on the taffrail to steady himself. "I don't
think it'll get worse, however. Here comes the tender.
See her? She'll have some difficulty coming along-
side in this sea."

More than once the tender circled round the ship
before it could come near enough to run out the gang-
way. Carmody and his friend watched the passen-
gers scamper across, clutching their hand luggage,
laughing and shouting, as though the novelty of the
experience thrilled them. Of those who had boarded
the ship at Southampton, the two young Americans
alone remained on deck to witness the transship-
ment of the European passengers and the mails.
In the darkness someone ran against Kelly.

"Oh, pardon, m'sieu'! It is so dark and the sea is
so rough."

Kelly stepped aside and assured the stranger that
no bones had been broken. Then with Carmody he
left the passengers' way. The tender pulled off, and
a moment later the ship swung round and headed for
the open sea. A light breeze rose from the west and
the moon came out from behind a cloud.

"That voice, Kelly," broke in Carmody when the
two were alone. "Do you recall it?"

Kelly wrinkled his brow and thought.

"I can't say I do, old chap," he answered.

"Think again. In Paris, during the Peace Con-
ference — don't you remember now?"

"I'm hanged if I do."

"I — I may be mistaken, of course, but I've an idea
that the fellow is the same who used to hang around'
outside our hotel and who always looked at us so ap-
pealingly whenever we went in and out."

"You mean the fellow who wore the uniform of the
Foreign Legion?"

"Precisely. Am I right?"

"Perhaps. I can't say that I ever heard him speak
while we were there. Gosh, what an abject figure
the poor fellow looked. Sort of down and out and — "

"Tom, do you know that face has haunted me
ever since? I'm sorry now I didn't speak to him. It
often seemed to me as if he wanted to ask us for help

F R A N CISC A \' HERA L 1)

March, 192;

but couldn't sifmmon up enough courage to do so."

Carmody and Kelly were journalists, returning to
New York after a prolonged stay in Europe. They
had seen and heard much during their wanderings.
But of all things the picture of that French soldier
was stamped indelibly on their memory. Day after
day, while the Peace Conference was in session in
Versailles, he would pace the sidewalk in front of the
journalists' hotel. Though always alone, he acted as
though someone he feared were watching his every
move.

Carmody recalled how one night, finding them-
selves at a loose end, Kelly and he had strayed into
one of the most exclusive restaurants in the French
capital. Grizzled veterans were explaining to suave
and smiling ambassadors how the war had been won
and how perilously near it came being lost. Secre-
taries, more pompous-looking than their chiefs, were
whispering over coffee and cigars the latest gossip
from Versailles. And passing in and out of the din-
ing room or lolling idly in secluded corners, appar-
ently indifferent to everybody and everything, were a
score or more of those mysterious beings who move so
furtively behind the scenes in the complex drama of
international affairs and keep the world's chancel-
lories in a continual ferment. Carmody and Kelly
had just taken a chair at one of the tables, when that
soldier in his shabby, war-stained Legion uniform
entered and looked around. Immediately a waiter
rushed up and ordered him off the premises. Stung
to the quick, he gave the waiter a withering glance,
said something the two Americans were unable to
catch, suddenly stopped short, and then slunk out
into the night.

This incident was uppermost in Carmody's mind
now as he paced the deck with his friend.

"It's a rum world, Tom, no matter how you look at
it," he muttered, tossing his cigar into the sea. "I'd
like to know the secret of that poor fellow's life.
Not because I'm curious, mind you, or better, more
curious than a newspaper-man should be, but simply
because I'm interested in him. I'd like to help him
if he needs my help and would accept it."

"If you were down and out, Charlie, how many
would care to help you?"

"Well, I wouldn't need it. I'd know how to get
on my feet again. I've had to paddle my canoe ever
since I was sixteen. But, somehow or another, that
soldier seems to be suffering from the handicap of
having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth."

"What makes you think so?"

"Oh, I can't say exactly; only his little mannerisms
I happened to notice. Besides, there was the uniform
he wore. You know from what class of society the
Legion is principally recruited, don't you?"

"Here, Charlie, cut it out. You give me a pain.
Come on, let's get some sleep before breakfast."

Morning rose bright and clear. Breakfast over,
Kelly headed for the library, while Carmody sought
the deck to take in the fresh air. There in a quiet
and secluded corner he saw three young girls, Irish
immigrants, devoutly reciting the Rosary; and
against the railing only a few feet away, a young

man leaning, his head bowed half in reverence hall
in shame. He waited until the girls had finished theii;
prayers. Then, as they rose to go, he approached:
them shyly and bowed. Reaching into his inside 1
pocket, he drew forth a phial and handed it to one of' 1
the girls.

"It's from Lourdes," Carmody heard him say. "I've
got more should you want it. Pray for me, will you?' ;

The girls said they would, thanked him, and with-
drew. Eagerly Carmody now advanced and touched
the man on the arm.

"Good morning, m'sieu," he saluted. "I heard
your voice last night but couldn't see your face in the
dark. Do you remember me, perhaps?"

At this the other started and looked up.

"Why, I certainly do," he replied, taking Carmody's
hand and shaking it warmly. "This is an unexpected
pleasure, indeed. And your friend — is he also on
board?"

"Yes. He may be around any moment. By the way,
my name is Carmody, Charles Carmody."

"And mine is Jack Martin."

"Jack Martin, late of the Legion. Life on board
ship is a bit different from life in the trenches or on
the sands of Algiers, eh?"

"Very different. Algiers proved frightful."

"Worse than Verdun."

"Oh, much worse, immeasurably worse. Let's
not speak of it. Have you been in America since I
last saw you?"

"No; I've been knocking about Europe all this time
Say, but the place is in a dreadful mess. Wherever
we came, nothing but war or rumor of war, famine,
pestilence, in short, misery in the superlative."

"You are right. Things are in a bad way in the
Old World. I wonder what they're like in your coun-j
try."

"This is your first trip across?"

"My first trip."

"And you intend to stay any length of time?"

"For the rest of my life."

"It must come hard to leave home and friends, to
break with the associations of half a lifetime. Do
you find it so?"

"Me? Oh! — er — no; I— well, I had to, you see."

Carmody was puzzled because he did not see and
could not, no matter how hard he tried. The other
refused to commit himself.

"Have you any friends in the States?" Carmody
asked.

"Not a soul."

"That's a bit tough. What are your plans for the
future?"

"I haven't any. But I guess there'll be some niche
somewhere into which I'll fit- — 'some cleft in the
rocks where I may hide, some secret valley in whose
windings I may — ' "

"Sh— h ! Don't —don't talk that way, don't, I beg
you. It's not the spirit in which to land on strange
shores. Think of the job you helped to finish over*
there. Tackle your new life as you tackled that job,
'L'audace' — you remember Danton's words, don'ffl

March, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

119

you? — 'encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace.'
In peace as in war, audacity wins."

A deep sigh escaped the breast of Jack Martin
as he looked out over the restless waters. Carmody
was right, he knew it; but a heart no longer re-
mained in him for the struggle.

"I'm really so glad you came and spoke to me,"
he said after a long silence. "I tried hard to pal with
you in Paris. But courage in the last moment always
failed me."

"Indeed? It never occurred to me at the time,
but repeatedly I fancied what you wanted. Now,
tell me, is there anything I can do for you?"

"There is. You're a journalist, aren't you?"

Carmody nodded yes.

"I used to write a little, formerly," the other ex-
plained. "But something happened and my name
dropped out of the magazine pages. While in Al-
giers, I scribbled a little but never got it published.
I've the manuscript with me now as I had it with me
when first I saw you. I was desperately in need of
money then and thought you might know of a market
for my wares. They deal with life in the Legion and
the social outcasts encountered there."

"Many such in the Legion, I understand."

"Very many, yes."

"And some of them you knew intimately?"

Martin passed his hand across his forehead and
cleared his throat.

"I did," he answered, "I knew some of them inti-
mately, as you say. Now, do you know of a magazine
editor who would consider a series of articles of this
kind?"

"A number of them, Mr. Martin. Such articles
should go well in America. I'd like to read yours if
you have no objection."

"Objection? I'd consider it a favor."

Slowly they passed up the deck. Near the turret
the captain came along with a distinguished-looking
gentleman, whom evidently he was showing over the
ship. As they drew nearer, Martin happened to look
up. For a moment he paused as if nailed to the spot.
A suppressed cry escaped him. One hand hanging
rigid at his side, the other extended in front of him to
ward off, as it were, something that he felt would
happen. The captain's companion pretended not to
notice but beads of perspiration stood on his brow
and nervously his hands fumbled with the lapels of
his coat. When the two disappeared, Martin groaned
and sank limp and inert into one of the deck chairs.
Helplessly Carmody looked about. If only Kelly were
here. While he was still reflecting on what to do,
one of the three Irish immigrants approached.

"Pardon me, sir," she began. "Is that young man's
name Martin?"

"Yes. Why do you ask? Do you happen to know
him?"

"I used to, years ago. How he has changed since
last I saw him. That gentleman who passed just now
with the captain is his father, Sir John Martin."

"You're a godsend, Miss "

"Kinsella is my name."

"Thank you. This man fought through the war

with one of the toughest outfits. Now, for some un-
accountable reason he seems to have forgotten that
he has a backbone. I'd like to have a chat with you,
Miss Kinsella, after I get him where he can recover
his composure. You'll be here when I come back?"

"Certainly."

Carmody went up and knelt beside Martin to whom
he whispered something. Then they arose and went
below. They were gone but a few moments when a
commotion in the first-class passengers' quarters
attracted the girl's attention.

"Man overboard!" she heard a dozen throats ex-
claim.

Women screamed, children cried, everyone was
hurrying to the side of the ship. The engines stopped,
the ship slowed down, a boat was lowered, manned by
sailors and volunteers. There on the turbulent
waters the girl saw the figure of a man bobbing up
and down. Now the boat shot out to his rescue, while
the passengers on deck held their breath.

"Quick! Quick!" the girl cried frantically. "He's
sinking ! Mother of God, save him !"

Now first Carmody noticed her and forced his
way to her side.

"Who is it, Miss Kinsella? Do you know him?" he
asked.

"Sir John Martin," she replied without turning
toward him.

"And where is his son? Have you seen him?"

"There he is in the boat. He was the first to jump
in. See, now he is preparing to leap into the sea.
Oh, dear, I can't stand this," and helplessly she suf-
fered Carmody to lead her to the other side of the
ship.

Presently a cheer rang out from those who had
gathered aft.

"Saved!" cried someone a moment later. "Splendid
work, boys, splendid!"

"I'm so happy," Miss Kinsella admitted to Car-
mody when he returned to her after the first excite-
ment was over. "I'm so happy."

"So am I," he assured her. "And so is everyone
on board, no doubt."

"Oh, but their joy can't be like mine."

"Then you must know the Martins."

"I do, but it is not for that reason only."

Carmody accepted her offer and took a chair beside
her.

"Years ago," the girl began, "Jack Martin became
acquainted with a friend of mine, a lady to her
finger tips but poor as a church mouse. The Martins,
on the other hand, were very wealthy, and Jack being
the only child, their wealth was one day to revert to
him. He was devoted to Doreen — that was my
friend's name — and she was in turn deeply in love
with him. But a barrier stood between them. She
was of the old faith, he of the new. He realized how
difficult it would be to get his father's consent to a
marriage with Doreen on account of her poverty,
while she from the first made it clear that a mixed
marriage was unthinkable. Sir John worshiped his
son and Jack would do nothing against his father's
wishes. The struggle lasted for some months. Then

FRAN Ci:S CAN HERALD

March, 192

finally he joined the Catholic Church and sent a friend
co break the news to his father. Sir John was furious;
he forthwith disinherited Jack and forbade him the
house. The young man was heartbroken, naturally;
but, plucking up courage, he set out to make a career
in London. He made a success of it; and then one
fine day he returned to make arrangements for the
wedding. Meanwhile, Doreen's health, which had
never been very robust, had begun to fail visibly.
Friends suggested to Jack a postponement of the
marriage; but he laughed at the idea. It was on the
eve of the wedding day that poor Doreen had to take
to her bed. A night of intense suffering followed and
the next morning she was a corpse. How Jack
crumbled up under the blow, you can imagine. He
lost interest in everything, lost heart in his work,
lost faith in himself. One day we learned he had
gone abroad and that was the last we heard of him.

Not long after, Sir John disposed of his property
and left the neighborhood. Those who had his con-
fidence said he regretted having been so hard on the
boy. He spent the most of his time traveling, so we
heard, wandering aimlessly from port to port. We
came to the conclusion that he was seeking his son.
Isn't it strange they should meet on this ship and
under circumstances as these?"

"Indeed, very strange," Carmody agreed. "But

how do you account for the incident that just hap-
pened? Do you think the elder Martin, overcome
with remorse, attempted suicide?"

"Not a bit of it," a voice sang out behind them.

There stood Jack, laughing and crying at the same
time, as happy as a schoolboy.

"Dad's not that kind," he continued. "I have the
story from the captain himself. He and dad were
standing at the railing, chatting together, when some-
one drew attention to a shapeless mass, some wreck-
age, probably, floating in the sea. To get a better
view, my father fetched a deck chair and stood on it.
Just then the ship gave a sudden jost and my father,
losing his balance, went headlong overboard. That's
the story. Now a much better one," and with tears
in his eyes he told the two how he and his father had
become reconciled.

"Gosh," he finally exclaimed, straining every effort
to gain the mastery over his feelings, "gosh, it's great.
Shakespeare's right:

'There's a divinity which shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.'
Now that all is forgiven and forgotten, dad and I are
going to tour the States. Believe me, it's been a
stormy voyage for us both. But, thank God! we're
in port at last."

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THE SHAMROCK

Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, preaching the

Gospel of God,
Showed to the people a shamrock

plucked at his feet from the sod.
"Here is a symbol," he said, "and a sign

of the faith I preach!
"Here is a symbol," he said, "and a sign

of the truth I teach!

"God is not many but One. One God,

One only, is He,
God is not many but One, though the

Persons in God are three.
E'en as the shamrock I pluck for you" —

holding it forth to them —
"Still is but one, although triple its leaves

upon stalk and stem."

Flashed o'er the minds of the people the

truth that was erstwhile dim.
Chieftain and bard and druid, all flocked

to the feet of him,
Passed from the faiths that had fettered

them under the pagan rod,
Giving their hearts and their souls and

their wills to the One True God!

Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, preached to

the people, and made
Ireland a nation whose sanctity never

shall fail or fade.
Centuries-old is the story — yet Irish

women and men
Love as the badge of their faith the

shamrock ever since then!

Denis A. McCarthy in Voices from Erin.

the leteresft ©f W©m on

Edited bv Grace Keon

"To make and hold
yourself good is the
best start toward
making the world
goo d." (Tertiary
Convention.)

DANGER SIGNALS

RS. ORDINARY PERSON
stood up and moved out
into the aisle to allow the
lady who had occcupied an inner
seat to pass her. Then she knelt
again, her eyes fastened on the
tabernacle, her little black beads
moving slowly as she prayed.

Mrs. A., although acquainted
with Mrs. Ordinary Person, did not
see her. Mrs. A. never saw any
Ordinary Person in her whole ex-
istence unless the sight was forced
upon her. Her vision was in the
clouds. She sauntered out into the
spring sunshine and her rosary
glittered. It was of gold and her
husband had given it to her for
Christmas. It had cost — but that
part doesn't matter. It was brilliant
as the sunshine itself, and it at-
tracted the attention of two Or-
dinary Persons, passing. They re-
garded it with admiration.

"Lovely!" murmured one.

"Beautiful!" seconded the other
— and sighed. She, too, liked pretty
things.

Mrs. A. overheard, and spent a
few seconds longer than was neces-
sary slipping the string into her
beaded bag. Which had also cost — ■
but that part doesn't matter, either.

"My dear!" Mrs. B. had come up
behind her, hands held out, effusive-
ly. "I was so pleased to catch a
glimpse of you in the crowd."

Mrs. A. extended her hand. Fin-
gers clung, affectionately.
• "So kind of you! I looked for
you, but finally thought you had at-
tended some other Mass."

"Or none at all? But the day was
so tempting. Who could resist it?
There was not the faintest shadow
of an excuse — "

They laughed. No one could tell
whether they were in earnest or
not.

"You live so far away, Mrs. B."

"And you just as far, Mrs. A."

"Yes," sighing. "If my husband
would only get that car one need
never stay at home ! You know I
feel as if I ought to come oftener —
to evening services and all that.
But somehow, I don't. I'm quite sure
if we had. a car I could manage.
Bert quotes such sermons as Father
X. is in the habit of giving us on
useless luxuries, and tells me I go
to the city whenever I want to — but,
of course, that's different. One
can't choose one's weather Sunday
mornings! Or evenings!"

"I've done better than you," said
Mrs. B., brightly. "My car comes
home tomorrow. I knew I could get
it if I kept at it hard enough."

"Delightful! Charming! I'm so
pleased for you, darling."

"Dark-blue — my color. With gray
upholstering. The cost? Oh, well!
Sometimes men say more than they
mean."

"Always, dear! I have no doubt
mine will be along soon, now. Good-
by!"

"Good-by! Any time you want
me to call for you, just 'phone me.
I'll be only too glad to give you a
lift, dear."

"Charmed, I'm sure! Awfully
good of you !"

They bowed, smiled, parted.

"Urn!" said Mrs. B. to herself,
her eyes sparkling jubilantly, "at
last I've got under her skin."

"Urn!" said Mrs. A., below her
breath, her eyes sparkling angrily.
"If she thinks — Wait until I get
home!"

Mrs. C. joined Mrs. D. and they
left the church together.
121

"So John graduates this term?"

"Yes. Your boy, too?"

"Naturally — they've been in the
same class right along."

"You're sending him to High?"

"The Lincoln Public — "

"I'm sending Tom there. Did you
hear Father X. this morning?"

"I did. I wonder if he thinks a
boy needs a religious education all
his life? John's had all he's going
to get of it in the grammar grades.
They can put their time to better
use than learning prayers every
day!"

"Exactly! And there are so many
advantages in Lincoln High. Mrs.
E., a neighbor of mine, tells me her
Willie is associating with the High
Jinks and the Debonairs. He even
attended a reception at the De-
bonairs' home last week."

"He did! Wonderful! Well,
there's no reason why my John and
your Tom can't move in that set, too.
And they're High Church, so that
they won't have any objection to
Catholics."

"Are they High Church? Mrs.

E. told me her Willie said they

called their minister Father. That
accounts for it."

"And Mr. Debonair himself is
president of I don't know how many
banks and trust companies. Really,
I am more resolved than ever that
John shall go."

"I have never even thought of not
sending him."

They bowed, smiled, and parted.

"My John will probably show her
Tom how to behave in decent com-
pany," mused Mrs. C.

"My Tom will have no trouble in
feeling at home with that sort of

122 F R A N C I S C A N HERALD March, v>2.

people," thought Mrs. D. "But her "Of course you are. So am I." gave your children their full inheri' 1
John — " tance of a good Catholic education;

Presently, when the babies in IA that thriir Catholic instincts might

"Going to Sodality meeting to- parochial ask the graduates of 8B not be starved. Your other boy will
night, Ella?" public "Who is God?" they will not be a fine Catholic physician before

"No, Frances. I'm not. Are you?" receive a very satisfactory reply. many years, and Marie's engage-

"No! There's a dance on." tm1m ,, ment to . young Laurence Colgan

_., , Oh, did you get this weeks means the beginning of a fine Catho-

>es-I-ve something, too. Who s Movie . form? Did you see the full- lie family."

a ing you . ^ length picture of Rosabelle Go-get- "y eSj Father," murmured Mrs.

George Harrison. it? Wasn't she beautiful? I adore Ordinary Person, and her eves were

"George Harrison! Why, I didn't her!" mo ; st "I'm afraid, at times. God

even know you knew the Harri- «oh, she's nice— but I love Claude is too good to me."
sons!" Admire-me! Did you notice his The priest held up a warning]

"Yes. I met Evelyn Harrison at soulful eyes? I'm mad about him." finger,
the Elmo High. We are good friends "Don't let Father X. hear you." "No," he said. "Your children

—and she's the sweetest thing—" ..j guesg not , Isn>t he a fusser? went t ' a Catholic school from your

"I should judge so. But she's not Catholic magazines, indeed! Two Catholic home and from a Catholic
an R. C." or three in every home! Dull, re- school to Catholic influence in high

"There you are! To hear Father ligious things! We've got quite school and college. Your home was
X. one would imagine we ought enough religion to suit me. Leave not too cultured — save the mark! —
never to look at any one not an R. long faces to the old people! Be- to bear upon its walls the pictures
C. If you knew how courteous and sides, every Catholic magazine is of your best friends, the saints, of
gentle George is! Not one of our out to knock the styles — and we're Christ, your Brother, and of Mary,
own boys can compare with him— always being called down for some- your Mother. Your bookcases were
not one! And supposing he does — thing — either pont or powder — " not too refined (I've heard the
well — finds me agreeable— do you "Or short skirts or lipsticks. Yes, word!) to contain upon their
think I'd have to give up my faith j know. The other magazines never shelves the works of good Catholic
if I married him? There have been sav a wor d about them. As for authors. Your tables held maga-
lots and lots of Catholic girls mar- Rosabelle, did you see the way she zines indeed— not the current trash
ried to non-Catholics before this!" wore her hair? I wonder if it's °f the day — but many of the better

"Wouldn't you think we could coming in? It's almost down to her clas s mixed with those published in
hear a different sermon once in a eyes. I'll have to try it." the interests of our holy Faith. You
while? We get the same old stuff « oh that > a the way they make did not think that >' our children
Sunday after Sunday! Catholic edu- their hits _i n the dress or make-up. could only enjoy the 'higher life,' so-
cation! Catholic friends! Catholic If you or j had their opportuni- called > bv associating with non-
husbands!" ties " Catholics, that evil which leads to

so many mixed marriages. No, my

So they parted. Danger signals! They're all about dear lad ^ if God has been & ood to

Comments unnecessary. us t you, you have helped Him to be so.

Don't you think so, Martin?"

"Our schools are not progressive Mrs. Ordinary Person rose, genu- The young man was looking at
enough to suit me! I can give my fl ec ted, dropped her plain black his mother — looking at her with
girls all the religious training they beads into her plain black bag, and that expression that is only found
need. But if one has an opinion of m0 ved slowly toward the door, in the eyes of a loving son.
one's own one is a pagan, to hear There a tall and handsome boy met "She saw the danger signals all
Father X.! I am quite positive the her. along the road, Father," he said,
children will get better training in "i thought I'd catch you, mother! "And we never found out she was
the public schools. Prayers won't i' ve just been in to see Father X.— steering us away from them. With-
boil the pot. Now, I'm not saying I wanted to say good-by to him out her wisdom and Dad's comrade-
anything against leading a good .... there he is now!" ship and justice we could never
Catholic life— we've all got to do Bo th smiled and nodded at the have reached our goal."
that if we expect to get to heaven, friendly priest, who came out into "Dear me, dear me!" sighed the
But we must think a little of this the vestibule. He crossed at once mother. "I am only a very Ordinary
world, also. We're here to make our an( j s hook hands with the mother. Person, indeed."
way, and if our children are decent, "Well ! Now you're reaping the "God bless all such Ordinary Per-
upright citizens they can be decent rew ard of your many sacrifices, sons, say I," remarked Father X.
Catholics." Your son will write O. F. M. after

"But Father X. says the training n i s name some day, please God!" Yes, Danger Signals! Have you

must begin when they're little." 'But they weren't sacrifices, noticed any? Let us take them, one

"I think 1 am capable of doing my Father — " by one, during the next few months,

own training." "They were, my dear lady. You and see how we may avoid them.

I March, 1922 FRANCISCAN HERALD 123

A FRIENDLY CHAT IN THE IN- ^VlTt^l^Cf tL m L-
TERESTS OF WOMAN'S READING ftVft ^5X"S£ S

bookshelf after reading Miss Gra-

This is the letter: this, too, in his characterization of dy's letter— and as I looked at it I

Dear Grace Keon: the great theft. asked myself a question: "Surely

I am quite sure that you can find But what book or books can a this is not the one you care the most
ij place, somewhere in your depart- woman make her own? That is about?" No, it isn't — and yet —

ment, to say a little about Catholic Miss Grady's question, and she has Well, with books it is as with
[ books of interest to women. I am a put it in such a straightforward people. You admire some very fine
book-lover, handicapped, as I am fashion that I am inclined to believe characters — but there are others not
sure many of the HERALD women other Catholic women, too, would be so fine, that you love. And I am
readers are, by living in a small interested in the same topic. I look not ashamed to confess that I love
town, and though I have a few cents at my bookshelves meditatively, this particular book, the LILY OF
to spare occasionally for books, I Which, of all these books would I ISRAEL.

have none to waste. I say to you, choose to make my life companion So, in regard to it I shall answer
quite frankly, that I do not trust could I have no other? And though here the questions I asked above:
publishers' announcements. Some this has been asked before, per- 1. It is one of my favorite books;
books which they seem to praise the haps it will not hurt to ask it again, it has been in my possession for
highest I have found, in the only What do you think about it, Catholic many years, and I have not kept
two instances in which I sent for women who read this department? track of the number of times I have
them, to be disappointing. What books have you found neces- read it.

Now you have asked for sugges- sary, helpful, consoling? Why 2. It is my favorite — or one oi
tions, letters, etc., and so I venture leave such a subject as this to the them — because it makes almost real
my request. Please give, if you can, Editor only? Miss Grady, also, the life of Our Lady as she might
in your department each month, a ought to tell us what type of book have lived it, and while I know
book or two that women will find she prefers, and why. Suppose we there is only the merest thread of
worth while. I read Paul H. formulate a set of questions, this possibility in the different events
Richards' Talk always and find it wise: recorded, at the same time by build-

most attractive — but somehow I 1. What is your favorite book? ing even a few fictitious events on
would like a discussion on books How long has it been in your pos- this thread I am helped in the con-
that a woman could make her own. session, and how often have you templation of her extraordinary af- j
MARGARET L. GRADY. read it? fection, filled with love for her great I

Naturally this letter — there is 2. Why is it your favorite? Give sorrow, and with desire to emulate
only the gist of it above — gave me us in a few words the appeal it her resignation to the will of God.
something to think about. Too often makes to you. 3. It has helped me because it is

has the topic "the dozen best books," 3. How has it helped you? (A simple, without pretension, and be-
been discussed to admit of much book that does not help is useless.) cause the descriptions of Nazareth,
variation. The "best" books for Now, before even considering the Bethlehem, and Calvary are so
each individual are those suited to matter, let us make a few rules in drawn that one is stirred to affec-
Ms spiritual requirements. For order to save space. Here they are. tion and reverence by the scenes '
after all (setting books of study From this discussion must be omit- enacted.

aside now) one reads to gain -a ted: The story begins with the birth of

brighter outlook on life; to view 1. Ordinary prayer-books. Every Mary, her early existence with her j
life's old problems through a new Catholic woman has one or two fa- parents, her dedication in the
vision; to be helped and aided along vorite prayer-books in constant use. Temple, her choice of Joseph as her
the way that so many have trod be- 2. The Bible. Every Catholic spouse. Then the wondrous hour
fore and so many will tread after, woman possesses a Bible and reads of the Annunciation, and the scene
Along this way a book is a rare com- it. on the housetop, with Mary and \

panion, a comfort, and a treasure. 3. The Imitation. Every Catho- Elizabeth together; a picturesque
To spend one's time in reading with- lie woman should know a Kempis. description which seems to recon-
out profit is about the sheerest He has a message for souls in all struct anew the glowing Eastern ,
waste that has ever been invented, walks of life. landscape. The birth of Our Lord, ,

To lay a book aside, being honestly There are few Catholic homes too, is wonderfully done, and all the !.
forced to confess that it has given without all three, and positively all mysteries of the Sacred Life lived
one no new thought, has made one Catholic homes have the first two of among an Oriental people. Our I
acquainted with no new character, the above list. And now that I have Lord's miracles are given so simply, I
has literally stolen away from two brought my readers into this dis- so effectively. We are acquainted
to perhaps four hours of life — pre- cussion. placing Miss Grady's ques- with these men and women He
cious hours — without giving one tion before them as well as before helped — we are told, quaintly, who ''
anything in return — well, I feel that myself, I am willing to pick out from they are, their names, their fami- ''
Shakespeare should have included the many Catholic books I have read lies!

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OUR NEW PATTERN SERVICE

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!
Read our directions below on HOW
TO ORDER PATTERNS. Many let-
ters came to us during February
without your name; or without your
address; or without giving number
of pattern, or size desired. If your
order for a pattern has not been
filled it is because you have omitted
something. So write to us again,
please! We are holding your letter
until we hear from you.

HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS:
Write your name and address plain-
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fit perfectly.

The SPRING issue of our
FASHION MAGAZINE is now
ready. It contains over 300 styles,
several pages of embroidery designs,
and a complete SEVEN LESSON
COURSE IN DRESSMAKING. This
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HOME HELPS

Tarnished Gilt Braid

Gilt braid very often becomes tar-
nished long before it is worn out.
When this happens brush the braid
free from all dust with a soft brush,
and rub a little powdered alum well
into it. Leave it for a few hours,
then brush off, and you will find
that the braid is quite bright again.

To Dry-clean Gloves

A mixture of finely-powdered Ful-
ler's earth and alum is excellent for
cleaning white kid gloves if they are
not very badly soiled. It should be
well rubbed in with a clean piece of
flannel, and then thoroughly
brushed off with a soft brush.

To Waterproof Shoes

If the children's shoes are made
waterproof in the following way,
they will not only keep out the wet,
but will last much longer than they
would otherwise. Melt together two
parts of beeswax and one part of
mutton fat, and apply a very, very
thin coat of it while hot to the
leather with a small brush. Give it
two coatings of this, and leave for
a few hours to dry.

Home Sewing Screen

It is always practical to have a
corner in the home specially re-
served for sewing. In most houses
the ever-necessary machine is kept
in the dining-room, and once the
sewing season starts — and this can
be at any or all times of the year,
according to the size of the family
and its requirements — one is con-
fronted by a somewhat cluttered
room, with a "gathering up" each
evening before the principal meal.
But the sewing machine, the dress
form, the work basket and darning-
bag, very tidy and appropriate if
one has a "sewing-room," does not
add to the dignity of any other
apartment. They make it appear
untidy and crowded, as many of our
housekeepers know.

Most housekeepers try to have
their sewing paraphernalia take up
as little room as possible, but this is
no easy task, either, no matter how
methodical you may be. An as-
sorted bundle of clothing, stockings,
etc., waiting to be mended, are al-
ways an eyesore, and particularly
to the other members of the family
who are out during the day. Noth-
ing appeals more to the outside
workers of the household than a
neat and tidy home when they re-
turn after their labors in the field,
the office, the store, or factory, and
even so small a thing as an attempt
to find some out-of-the-way corner
for the sewing needs will prove
worth while. Even when
the machine, wedged
into a corner of the
hall or pushed into a
closet has to be hauled
out, it is more or less
of a nuisance.

But we are illustrat-
ing, on this page, an in-
genious idea which one
woman invented, im-
provising a sewing-
room in her bedroom.
It was done with the aid
of a folding-screen, be-
hind which a chair, a
small table, the machine,
and baskets and bags

were kept. A dressform, too, found
its place behind this very useful
article.

Now the idea of a large screen
may appear to disadvantage, as be-
ing rather an expensive article, but
its cost can be minimized by the use,
say, of an old clothes horse or dryer
which has been pushed aside, as no
longer in use, or even in need of
repair. Good furniture binding will
generally render it firm and usable.
Cover it then with a cretonne that
will match the room, and fit up the
inside as shown in the illustration,
with a number of pockets. The
large ones for patterns, smaller ones
for spools of thread, darning cotton,
scissors, thimbles, tapes, buttons.
Once tried, this screen will prove
its value, and its cost can be re-
duced to a very small item. In the
beginning, see that it is firm ; cover
it carefully, and stitch it with care,
as you want it to last indefinitely.
It will, too.

In connection with the sewing
screen convenience there are one
or two other little things that have
proven their usefulness over and
over again to one busy housewife.
Inside a machine drawer, or even in
one of the larger pockets of the
screen, a small box could be kept to
hold the sewing trifles that often
help to make sewing an easier task.

In this sewing box you will find
useful an old candle-end for waxing
thread. When sewing by hand on
anything very thick or stiff, draw
the thread across the candle-end. It
will then slip through the material
quite easily. When putting a thick
seam through the machine rub the
candle along the line where the sew-
ing must go, and then stitch ahead
without the least fear that the
needle may break or stick fast. !
There may also be a tracing wheel,
as it is quite handy in making tucks.
A small steel tape measure is more
accurate than a soft one, as it never
crumples and the figures never wear
off. It is easier to store away, too,
for when finished with, it slips back '
into its little case, while a cloth '

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March, 1922

measure is always coming unrolled
and getting itself tied in knots
round other things.

A little pair of tweezers is most
useful for pulling out tacking
threads. Very often you can't get
at the tacking with your fingers,
and if you try to rip them out with
the scissors you are sure to cut the
material. But you can just pick up
each stitch with the point of the
tweezers, give a little tug, and away
it comes at once.

The scissors may be stuck into a
cork, so that the points may not be
blunted, and a bow of ribbon may
be tied to their handles so that they
can be hung up when not actually in
use, for they have a way of losing
themselves among the litter on the
table.

A magnet, too, will prove its
value, so that when the needle drops
one does not need to hunt around on
the floor for it. Just run the mag-
net to and fro, and when it comes
up again the needle is sure to be
hanging from it. One can end a
day's work by passing the magnet
over the floor round the chair and
table. It will collect all the stray
pins.

THE MARGUERITE EDGING

Use a fine linen thread if this lace
is destined for the ornamentation
of handkerchiefs. Begin by making
9 ch and then work a foundation
row as follows: 2 tr in the sixth

stitch from the hook, 2 ch, 2 tr in
the next stitch 1 ch, miss 1 stitch,

1 tr in the end stitch. Turn.
First row — 5 ch, 2 tr in space of

2 ch, 2 ch and 2 tr in the same space,
1 ch and 1 tr in the following loop
of 5 ch, turn.

Second row — 7 ch, 1 tr in the last
stitch made, 1 ch, 2 tr in space of

2 ch, 2 ch, 2 tr in the same space,

1 ch, 1 tr in the end loop, turn.

Third row — 5 ch, 2 tr in space of

2 ch, 2 ch and 2 tr again in the
same space, 1 ch, 1 tr in the tr stitch
which was made after the loop of 7
ch, 13 tr in the loop of 7 ch, 1 dc
in the same loop of 5 ch as the tr
stitch at the end of the first row,
turn.

Fourth row — *5 ch, miss 2 tr, 1 dc
in the next, repeat from * three
times; 5 ch, miss the remaining 2
tr and work 1 dc in the following
space of 1 ch, 5 ch, 2 tr in space of
2 ch, then 2 ch and 2 tr again in
the same place, 1 ch, 1 tr in the end
loop, turn. This completes the pat-
tern, begin again at the first row.

altar linen sent to a mission church ments to have the directions for this
in one of the big Chinese cities. It altar lace furnished separately, and
is very practical, indeed, as it we will send these directions to any
washes splendidly, and with ordi- one who applies for them at just
nary care will not show that this what they cost to make up — ten
has been done. cents for the pattern, and two cents

We have, therefore, made arrange- postage — twelve cents in all.

THE ROMAN CROSS ALTAR
LACE

During the coming months we in-
tend to furnish our readers with
some of the latest and best examples
of embroidery work, fancy work of
all descriptions, wool work, etc. We
have also some very fine patterns
of crocheted laces, but find our
space so limited that we cannot give
a full description on these pages.
Take this Roman Cross Altar Lace
for example. It measures nearly
sixteen inches in width, and the de-
scription of its making, while sim-
ple to the experienced needleworker
— and even the beginner will have
no trouble in working it — would oc-
cupy too much space in the HER-
ALD. Yet often our workers and
those in charge of church linens
would be glad to have such a pat-
tern as this on hand for their leisure
moments, in order to add to the
beauty of God's altar.

I have seen it completed, and it is
a really beautiful piece of work.
The original was made for a set of

The Roman Cross Altar Lace and Corner

March, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

127

How We Solved the Clothes Problem
In Our Family

By Irene Stevenson

EVER since I can remember I have
longed to have distinctive, be-
coming clothes. Every girl does,
I think. But most girls And it
difficult to look their best in these days
tot high prices. Yet a year ago I found
lithe way, not only to have pretty, attrac-
tive dresses and other things for myself,
(but also a way to solve the clothes prob-
lem in our family.

What is more, I have found the way
to make more money than I ever ex-
ipected to earn. Altogether my discov-
(ery has meant so much to my happiness
land success that I am sure other women
and girls will be interested in hearing
[about it.

I Soon after leaving school, I started to
'work as a clerk in an office downtown.
.There were four of us: Ted, my ten-year-
old brother; "Sister," just six; mother
•and myself. We had practically nothing
'but my meagre wage, and this, with the
Ismail "income father had left us, pro-
vided funds enough to just about pay
for our rent and food. There was never
I any money left for clothes.
• Well, one night after the children
I were in bed, mother and I had a serious
discussion of our finances. We decided
'that I could help by learning to make
my own clothes. Neither of us knew
1 anything to speak of about sewing,
j At the time, though, I felt confident
and mother and I were convinced that
we could save quite a little if I became
the family dressmaker. So I tried — eve-
nings after I had finished my day's work.
But soon my troubles began! I became
so discouraged by my mistakes and the
ludicrous garments I made that I told
1 mother I would surely have to take at
| least a few lessons. But when we can-
j vassed the possibilities for getting tha
I necessary help and instruction, the out-
I look was gloomy indeed.
I I couldn't possibly give up my posi-
I tion and leave home to learn how to
make our clothes — we could scarcely
get along as it was. We simply had to
have the -little money I was bringing
home each week. And there seemed to
be no other way.

Then just when I was most discour-
aged, something happened — it seems to
| me that it was the only thing that could
! have happened to change the situation
| and make possible more happiness and
success and independence than I had
dared even to dream for.

Like most girls interested in dress, I
I read several fashion magazines. And
I in one of them, I found the solution of
I my problem. The picture first caught
I my attention. And the story was about
j a girl just like myself who had been
1 unable to take her rightful place be-
cause her clothes were not like those of
other girls she knew. But she had
| quickly learned right in her own home,
during spare time, to make just the kind
: of stylish, becoming dresses and hats she
> had always wanted.

It was so true to life, so much like
I my own case, that I read every word
i and mother agreed with me that it was
' surely worth finding out about, at least.
So I wrote the Woman's Institute and
I asked how I could learn to make our
j clothes.

The information I received was a rev-
elation to me. The Institute offered
just the opportunity I needed, so I
joined at once and took up dressmaking.
I could scarcely wait until my first
lesson came, and when I found it on the
table at home a few nights later, I car-
ried it upstairs and read it as eagerly
as if it had been a love-letter.

Nothing could be more practical and
interesting and complete than this won-
derful course. There are more than
2,000 illustrations, making every step
perfectly plain, and the language is so
simple and direct that a child could
understand every word of it.

Almost at once I began making actual
garments — that's another delightful
thing about the course. Why, I made
a beautiful waist for mother after my
third lesson! And in just a little while
I was making all our clothes with no
difficulty whatever.

Of course, as a member I had an op-
portunity to learn a great deal about
the Institute and its work. It's per-
fectly wonderful what this great school
is doing for women and girls all over
the world! You see, it makes no dif-
ference where you live, because all the
instruction is carried on by mail. And
it is no disadvantage if you are employed
during the day or have household duties
that occupy most of your time, because
you can devote as much or as little time
to the work as you wish, and just when-
ever it is convenient.

Among the members are housewives,
mothers, business women, school teach-
ers, girls at home and in school, and
girls in stores, shops and offices — all
learning dressmaking or millinery right
in their own homes just as successfully
as if they were together in a classroom.

I soon learned to copy models I saw
in the shop windows, on the street, and
in fashion magazines. Every step was
so clearly explained that the things I
had always thought only a professional
dressmaker could do were perfectly
■ asy for me!

For through the Woman's Institute I
had learned how to make all stitches and Address

not forget to say: "I saw your ad in Franciscan Herald"

seams; design patterns; use tissue-
paper patterns; judge, select, buy and
use materials; make simple, practical
waists, skirts and dresses, perfect-fit-
ting underwear and lingerie, dainty
infants', children's and misses' clothing,
afternoon coats, suits and dresses, eve-
ning gowns and wraps, tailored coats,
skirts and complete suits; renovate, dye
and make over garments; how to em-
broider, etc.

But the biggest thing my Woman's
Institute training taught me was the
secret of distinctive dress — what colors
and fabrics are most appropriate for
different types of women, how to develop
style and add those little touches that
make clothes distinctively becoming.

It wasn't long before my dresses at-
tracted the attention of the best-dressed
people. I called on several women who
for years had gone to expensive city
shops for their clothes. They welcomed
my suggestion that I could create the
kind of clothes they wanted and save
them money besides.

In less than six months from the night
I first read about the Woman's Institute,
I had given up my position at the office
and had more dressmaking than I could
possibly do alone.

Of course, our own clothes problems
are a thing of the past. The dresses
mother and I wear are always admired,
the children have an abundance of at-
tractive clothes and there is no more
worrying about money.

To any woman who wants to make
her own clothes or t~'.:e up dressmaking
as a profession, my advice is: Write the
Woman's Institute and ask about its
work. More than 125,000 delighted
members have proved that you can
easily and quickly learn at home, in
spare time, to make all your own and
your children's clothes and hats, or pre-
pare for success in dressmaking or mil-
linery as a profession.

The Institute is ready to help you, no
matter where you live or what your cir-
cumstances or your needs. And it costs
you absolutely nothing to find out what
it can do for you. Just send a letter,
post card or the convenient coupon be-
low to the Woman's Institute, Dept. 88-C,
Scranton, Pa., and you will receive,
without obligation, the full story of this
great school that is bringing to women
and girls all over the world, the happi-
ness of having dainty, becoming clothes
and hats, savings almost too good to be
true, and the joy of being independent
in a successful business.

TEAR OUT HERE

WOMAN'S INSTITUTE
Dept. 88-C, Scranton, Penna.

Without cost or obligation, send me
one of your booklets, and tell me how I
can learn the subject marked below:

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Please specify whether Mn

ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN OUR
REVOLUTION

BOSTON each year proudly
celebrates Evacuation Day,
March 17, 1776, "one of the
first great successes of the Revolu-
tion," as it has been called; the day
when Lord Howe's troops left
the city with over one thous- |j ==
and British sympathizers in U,
their train. These sympathiz-
ers had not joined in the cry
for independence; they were
satisfied with British rule; and
being generally men of wealth
and position in the colonies,
they exercised a very depress-
ing influence over V •. poor
colonists, fighting foi right
and justice. So w ien this
large number fled w th the un-
successful soldierj of England,
the news spreaa throughout
the country like wildfire and
inspired fresh courage and
hopefulness. As the troops
drew away from the Massachu-
setts shore, it was the guns of
Dorchester Heights that told
them goodbye, and these guns
were manned by a brigade of
Irish soldiers under General
Sullivan. So good was the
work of the Irishmen that Gen.
Washington ordered "St. Pat-
rick" to be used as the coun-
tersign for that night through-
out the entire Continental ar-
my. From that time on, there
was always a celebration of St. Pat-
rick's Day in the Revolutionary ar-
my. In the Pennsylvania Historical
Society Records is preserved the
speech of Washington to his troops
"after a demonstration by the Irish
soldiers" at Valley Forge, March
17, 1778:

"I, too, am a lover of St. Patrick's
Day and must settle the affair by
making all the army keep the day."
In 1780, he issued the following or-

CONDUCTED BY ELIZABETH ROSE

der from his headquarters at Mor- day by the commanding officer ofi
ristown: the Pennsylvania Line, said to have

"All Fatigue and Working Parties been Colonel Francis Johnston,
are to cease on to-morrow, March 17, "Desirous that the celebration of
a day held in particular regard by St. Patrick's Day should not pass
the people of Ireland. The General by without a little rum being issued
congratulates the Army on the very to the troops, the commanding officer
interesting proceedings of the Par- has thought proper to direct the

commissary to send for the

A MARCH SOLILOQUY

They speak so harshly of my winds,
And every little puff decry;

I know I am unpopular —

Yet I can't see the reason why!

There's not a month in all the year

That tries so hard each taste to meet.

Now if you will not take my word,
Listen while I the list repeat:

For the good people, feasts I bring —
St. Patrick, glorious Gabriel,

St. Joseph and Our Lady's Day,

When Gabriel did his message tell.

"T is true Lent always in me lies,
With its discomfort, deprivation;

But then there's often Easter, too,
With all its joy and consolation.

For Presidents, at least the new ones,
My Fourth's indeed a lucky day,

And New Year's Day my First was held
For centuries, till stolen awayl

To all the world the end I bring
Of winter and its dark domain;

My violets whisper of the Spring,

My swelling buds of Summer's reign.

I clear the waters for the tar,
I open earth unto the sower;

I'm just as kind as kind can be

Yet all one says of me is "BLOWER!"

hogshead which the Colonel ■
has purchased, already in thei
vicinity of the camp. While the
troops are celebrating the
bravery of St. Patrick in inno-
cent mirth and pastime, he I
hopes they will not forget
their worthy friends in the
kingdom of Ireland, who with
the greatest unanimity have
stepped forward in opposition
to the tyrant Great Britain,
and who, like us, are deter- I
mined to die or be free."

Which all goes to show that
our great George and his com-
manding officer were good Sinn
Feiners and Anti-prohibition-
ista.

Did you know that George
Washington Parke Custis, the
adopted grandson of Washing-
ton, said in a speech he made
at Washington, July 20, 1826:

"If there is an American who
does not feel for the wrongs of
that country which so nobly
contributed to the establish-
ment of American rights, I
pronounce him recreant to the
feelings of honor and grat-

Our country's friend in our

liament, which appear calculated itude

to restore to a brave and generous country's greatest need!"

People their ancient Rights and Galloway, Speaker of the Pennsyl-

Freedom, and so promote the Cause vania House of Representatives be-

of America." fore the Revolution and a loyal

Alas! Washington couldn't tell a Englishman, was questioned in Par-
lie, but the English Parliament liament after his return to England
could; and notwithstanding his about the American troops,
lavish use of capitals, the "Rights "Scarcely one quarter" (his own
and Freedom of the brave and gen- words, preserved in English re-
erous People" are still lacking. cords'), "their names and places of

An order was given on the same birth being taken down, show na-
128

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FRANCISCAN HERALD

129

tives of America. The other one-
quarter are English and Scotch, and
one-half are Irish."

All hail to St. Patrick! and let all
our Young Folk, Irish or not, join
in praise of "The faith and the feast
of St. Patrick's Day."

WHAT THE PRINTERS' TYPE
TELLS US

The invention of printing is per-
haps the greatest thing ever done by
men. How impossible it is now to
realize the condition of things when
only a privileged few could learn or
study because there weren't enough
books to go round — and those in
manuscript. Some excuse then for
not studying one's lesson, wasn't
there? If it hadn't been for the
busy, patient monks copying, copy-
ing, all day long, in their peaceful
cloisters, there would not have been
any books at all, not even manu-
script ones. There would have been
no records of history, no account of
the arts and sciences, none of the
knowledge we draw in with our ear-
liest years. It was to the monks —
and to the nuns, too— that we owe
all these, long before John Gutten-
berg made the wonderful discovery
that changed the whole world. When
you begin to make studies of those
far-off times, you will open your
eyes indeed to find out what these
good men and women, called by so
many Protestant writers "lazy" and
"useless," did, not only for their
own age but for all that were to
come.

But we mustn't get so far away
from what I am going to tell you
about, the connection of our "lazy"
monks with the printing office of to-
day. There are names and terms
used in printing now, which come
directly from this association and
which are used by modern printers,
many of whom are entirely ignorant
of how they came into use. Ask
some printer you know and see if
he can tell you what you can tell
him. For instance, take the name of
some of the type. A certain shape
and style, the standard of measure-
ment for printing, is called Pica —
long and short pica.

In olden times, before the Protes-
tant religion was ever heard of, and
in the first days of the new inven-
tion, pica was the name of a book

used in the churches just as it is
to-day, though not called by that
name, giving the order of the ser-
vices and directions for the office.
The type used for printing this book
was named for it, pica, even though
employed for other purposes.
French printers afterwards changed
the name to Cicero, and called long
and short pica big-eye and little-eye
Cicero.

Then there was St. Augustine, a

type the name of which was after-
wards changed by the Protestant
English printers to English, and so
known at present. Long and short
Premier meant, in the beginning,
the type in which Prime, a part of
the Divine Office as recited by the
priests and monks, was always
printed; Brevier was the type used
in printing the breviary of the
priests. These terms are all in use
now. Monk was formerly used to

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March, 1022

express the black smudge occasion-
ally seen in a new book when there
has been too much ink on the press,
thus spoiling the page; Friar, a
blank space that ought to have got-
ten printed but didn't, by some mis-
take.

I suppose you have all heard of
Printers' Pi, and seen it, too, when
a line of unmeaning letters sudden-
ly appears on the page. This, of
course, is when the type has some-
how become jumbled. This pi is
supposed to be a contraction of the
same pica of which we have been
speaking, though how it applies is
rather mysterious. There is anoth-
er term for this jumble — squabble,
but I am sure the monks couldn't
have done that!

Honor to whom honor is due. Our
first printers were nearly all monks ;
but sometimes they were — nuns!
Printing spread very rapidly, after
its invention, through all the coun-
tries of Europe, but particularly
through Italy. There, every monas-
tery had its printing press, long be-
fore men out in the world thought
of making the art their employment.
Among these Italian early printers,
the Dominican Nuns of the Convent
of St. James, at Mt. Ripoli, took a
prominent place. They had for
over three centuries been copying
and illuminating manuscripts, be-
fore printing was thought of and,
like our up-to-date Sisters to-day,
they weren't going to be left in the
march of progress !

Don't forget or let anybody
around you forget that from such
"holy" type, was printed, in the year
1536, the first book on the Western
Continent, the "Spiritual Ladder"
of St. John Climacus, in Catholic
Mexico City, by Franciscan friars,
79 years before the first printing
press in our United States was set
up at Harvard College.

There is another term handed
down from the early days of print-
ing which tells a tale of its own,
though it no longer bears the same
significance. When the monk and
good lay printers set to work, it
was in a room called the "chapel" —
not because it was necessarily part
of a church, but because these men
believed the new art would be a
great factor in spreading the know-
ledge of God and His praise. So it
was they gave their printing room

this name, that the thought might be
always in their minds; and the
head of the printers was called the
"Dean." Nowadays, "chapel" sim-
ply means the body of printers in a
certain office, just as we say "coun-
cil" or "lodge," and I am afraid very
few "deans" know how they got
their name!

THE LETTER BOX

Walk right in and don't be bash-
ful, plenty of room is yours to own;
all my space I'm keeping for you,
\oung Folks, you and you alone.
I just love to get a letter sent to me,
my name outside. What's the odds
if I can't read it? others can, and
enjoy beside. Seems to me were I
a Young Folk I would never stop
a-writing, there's so much to say
and talk of, there's so much to be
a-sighting. If to Rome, like Nelly
Martin, most of you can't hope to
go, why, just up and look about you
— tell of things you see and know.
Just suppose a row I gathered right
in front of me and said: Don't you
dare to speak, to whisper, hold a
thought within your head ! Ah, just
wouldn't the thoughts come jump-
ing! wouldn't words pour forth so
fast, they would fill me up and
cover, run me over, to get past! I
am getting just that hungry! ! ! —
Hurry if my life you'd save — hurry,
hurry, Young Folks kindly — to the
rescue, Young Folks brave!
Your famished

LETTER BOX.

THE SPIDER-WEB OF SANS

SOUCI

If any of you ever go over to Ger-
many and visit Berlin you will be
told by all means to see Sans Souci
before you leave. Sans Souci is a
royal palace at a little distance from
the city, and was built more than
100 years ago by a Prussian king
called Frederick the Great — a man
whose only friends he said, in dy-
ing, were his dogs; and they lie in
the grounds of their former home in

a little cemetery of their own.
Frederick had but little feeling for
his fellow-creatures, who returned
his want of affection for them with
interest; but he was good to his
animals, so perhaps it was but ap-
propriate that one of the lesser
creatures of God should be the
means of saving his life from an
assassin here at Sans Souci — "with-
out care" — his favorite abode. If
you do visit this odd, one-story pal-
ace of Frederick's, preferred by him
to all his larger and finer ones, you
will find it very plain. But in one
room there is a peculiar and strik-
ing decoration that will at once at-
tract your eye. This room is the
one in which he used to take his
morning cup of chocolate, and on
the ceiling is painted an elaborate
golden spider-web, the story of
which is this:

One morning, just as he was about
to raise his cup to his lips, a big
spider, not a respecter of kings,
however great, fell right down from
the ceiling into it. Of course, after
that no king was going to drink the
contents! Feeling decidedly put
out, for such an occurrence will
make kings, as well as ordinary
folks, get provoked, Frederick
poured out the contents of his cup
into a little dish at his side, placed
there for one of his dogs of whom
he was very fond. The little fellow
was delighted and rushed to drink.
It was his last. As Frederick turned
to ring for another cup of chocolate
(he was alone, never wanting any-
body with him at his unsociable
breakfast), he saw his poor favorite
suddenly fall over in a strong con-
vulsion. In a moment he was dead,
the chocolate wet upon his mouth.
Frederick saw at once that the cup
had been poisoned, and for him. If
it had not been for that unwelcome
visitor from the ceiling, he would
have been where his unfortunate
doggie was lying, for he would have
drunk of the cup and its poisoned
contents.

In remembrance of his wonderful
escape, the king caused the ceiling
of the room to be painted in the sem-
blance of a huge golden spider-web, j
and there it still glistens and tells
the story, though king and dog and
spider have long since turned to
dust.

March, 1922

F R A X C I S C A X HERALD

131

THE "LAST BATTLE OF THE
REVOLUTION"

! November 25, 1783, was a big clay in
i the city of New York; and wouldn't
some of our Young Folk have enjoyed
themselves if they had been present!
It was the day on which .the British
i forces were to leave our shores forever,
I taking their flag with them — at twelve
o'clock noon the flag of a new nation
was to break out from the top of every
flagstaff where so long the emblem of
England's power had floated in dom-
inance. Perhaps down in the bottom of
their hearts the English soldiers were
glad enough that the long war was over,
and they could once more see their
homes; still, it was natural, too, that
I the act of acknowledging defeat wasn't
any too pleasant, and doubtless they felt
rather sore. One of them, Provost Cun-
ningham, did, at any rate; he was en-
raged and didn't hesitate to show it. A
man named Day kept a tavern or inn on
Murray street, near where the soldiers
were waiting the time for embarking.
He was such an ardent patriot that he
couldn't wait for twelve o'clock — up
went the American flag at dawn, too
soon. Cunningham, coming along later,
saw it and stopped at once.

"Down with that rag!" he cried.

"It's up for good," said Day, as cool
as the other was fiery.

"Get out of the way," he ordered a
guard near him. "I'll pull the thing
down myself and tear it into tatters."

By this time a large crowd had gath-
ered, and mutterings were heard all
around. Cunningham was too angry to
care. He grasped at the cords, and
started to haul the new beautiful symbol
of a new-born country from its lofty
height. Started — but that was as far as
he got. Out sailed Mrs. Day, fire in her
eye and in her hand a good solid broom-
stick, and over the head of the aston-
ished British officer "thwack! thwack:
thwack!" came the stout American wood
until, furious and mortified beyond
words, he actually took to his heels, leav-
ing Mrs. Day and the flag of her coun-
try the victors on the field. Jeers and
roars of laughter followed him as he fled,
his own men even joining in, in spite of
themselves. A spectator of the scene has
left us a comical description of it, the
broomstick going like mad, the powder
from Cunningham's white wig (the of-
ficers all wore wigs in those days, you
know), flying about him so thick that it
almost resembled a halo — except for the
very unsaintly expression of the coun-
tenance it encircled.

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A STRANGE SIGHT

Wouldn't we open our eyes now-
a-days if we went to a bishop's
Solemn High Mass and saw, as he
rose after the Gloria and Credo and
took off his cap to go to the altar,
the deacon and sub-deacon approach
him, spread a cover over his shoul-
ders, that his vestment might not
get soiled and — comb his hair or
beard, if he happened to have one!
The comb would be of ivory or gold
or silver, to be sure, and perhaps be
decorated with jewels, but I am
afraid we wouldn't be able to pay
proper attention to the service after
that.

In the Greek church the comb is
still in use, as many of its clergy
wear full long beards; so if some
day you go traveling in the East and
come across this reminder of former
days, be sure you say "Oh, yes, I
know all about that — it's no novelty
to me!"

THE PUZZLE CORNER

Jumbled Countries

1 — Caierma 6 — Itaraus

2 — Dlerina 7 — Aariblug

3 — Moecxi 8 — Suiars

4 — Gnyeram 9— Yltai

5 — Fhangatsian 10 — Cotldnas
— John Tinsley, New York City.

Cities that Are Something Else

1 — What city of Ohio is a discoverer?

2 — What city of Missouri is a very
holy person ?

3 — What city in Chile is a continent ?

4 — What city in Alabama with four
letters prefixed becomes a thing to ride
in?

5 — What city in Alabama is the name
of a famous general ?

— Agnes Wall, Albany, N. Y.

What Bird Am I?

I am a swiftly flying bird. In me you
will find:

1 — A fated animal

2 — A favorite dessert

3 — A writing implement

4- — A negative

5 — A toilet article

6 — A famous southern dish

7 — Past participle of the verb to go.
— Isabelle Baker, Bowling Green, Ky.

March, 1922

A Letter Too Much

1 — Take me out of a flower and it
will become fish.

2 — Take me out of a bird and it will
act like swine.

3 — Take me out of a vessel and it will
become part of the body.

4 — Take me out of a heavenly object
and it will turn into a sailor.

5 — Take me out of a point of the com-
pass and it will be like rain.

6 — Take me out of a country of Eu-
rope and there will be suffering there.

7 — Take me out of a fire and leave a
public pleasure ground.

8 — Take me out of feast and leave a
wonderful performance.

— Clement Lane, Baltimore, Md.

Answers to February Puzzles
Foreign Authors

1— Tasso
2 — Dickens
3— Dante
4 — Browning
5 — Milton
6 — Shakespeare
7 — Thackeray
8— Shelley
9— Keats
10— Howitt

Upset Furniture

1 — Pedestal
2— Buffet
3 — Bookcase
4 — Chiffonier
5 — Piano
6— Chair
7— Table

Jumbled Flowers

1 — Balsam

2 — Petunia

3 — Verbena

4 — Aster

5 — Madonna Lilies

Islands

1 — Ascension Island

2— St. Helena

3 — Sandwich Islands

4 — Friendly Islands

5 — Madeira

(5 — Canary Islands

7 — Long Island

8 — Society Islands

CORRECT SOLUTIONS

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HOW THE POPE IS ELECTED

VERY impressive ceremonies
attend the official announce-
ment of the death of the pope.
When the papal physician after a
strict examination declares that his
illustrious patient has departed this
life, the Cardinal Chamberlain or,
as he is generally called, the Papal
Secretary of State, approaches the
deathbed and with a little silver
mallet strikes the forehead of the
deceased three times, each time call-
ing him by his baptismal name.
Then, while a notary draws up in
writing a legal evidence of the sad
event, the cardinal breaks both the
papal seals and the fisherman's
ring, which latter the Holy Father
wears as a sign of his exalted office.
Finally, the Cardinal Chamberlain
issues a formal declaration stating
that death has robbed the Church
of her Supreme Pastor; that, till
the election of a successor, the Sa-
cred College of Cardinals exercises
supreme authority in the Church;
and that he himself, as Chamberlain
and head of the Sacred College,
hereby assumes charge of the papal
household.

The obsequies of the deceased
pope last nine days, during which
time various public demonstrations
of respect for the late pope and of
sorrow over his demise take place.
One of the many state officials who
called at the Vatican to express con-
dolence over the death of Pope
Benedict XV, was an envoy from
the Italian Government. This caused
quite a sensation in 'diplomatic
circles and it will probably be heard
of again before many moons. While
formalities like these are gone
through, the Cardinal Chamberlain
makes preparations for the election
of a successor to the Chair of St.
Peter. Since the cardinals of the
Church — and they alone — have an

By Fr. Francis Borgia, O. F. M.

active voice, that is a vote in this
election, they are officially noti-
fied and invited to attend. At the
same time, stonemasons, carpenters,
and papal domestics are busy wall-
ing off and arranging that portion
of the great Vatican palace where
the elecVon is to be held. This place
is then known as the Conclave.

It comprises several floors of the
Vatican and also the famous Sistine
Chapel. Only one door leads into
it and this must be locked from
within and from without, until the
election is over. That is why the
place is called the Conclave, from
the Latin con — with and Clavis —
key. The reason for this is to in-
sure absolute secrecy and to pre-
vent all interference from without,
no person once within being per-
mitted to leave the Conclave or to
have any communication with the
outside world. Each cardinal has
an apartment of three or four little
rooms with only the most necessary
furniture. What time is not devoted
to the actual sessions, they spend
in prayer and meditation, entreat-
ing the Holy Ghost to enlighten and
direct them in their choice of a
successor to the highest dignity and
most difficult office in the world.
The one door leading into the Con-
clave is never opened while the
election is on, except to admit a
cardinal who may have come late or
to let out a cardinal or an attendant
in case of serious illness. It is inter-
esting to know also that the apart-
ments of every cardinal have silk
hangings like portiers; they are of
a purple color if the occupant was
created cardinal by the latest pope,
and of a green color if the occupant
had been raised to the cardinalitial
dignity by some previous pope.

It is on the evening of the tenth
day after the death of the pope that
133

the cardinals enter the Conclave.
With them are various attendants
and minor officials. Thus, for in-
stance, each cardinal is allowed to
have one servant and a private
secretary. These are all appointed
and examined by a special commit-
tee and they are obliged to promise
on oath not to reveal what they may
learn of the proceedings nor to hin-
der the election in any way. At
present, this provision is observed
very strictly. Until recently, there
were certain countries in Europe,
for instance, Austria, who enjoyed
a sort of "veto" power at a papal
election and could in this way not
only prolong the sessions by undue
interference but even prevent the
choice of a candidate who was excel-
lently well worthy but for some
reason or another not "papabilis" in
their eyes. Thus, in 1903, when
Austria strenuously opposed the
election of a certain cardinal, now
no longer among the living, and
thereby caused great confusion,
Pope Pius X, immediately after his
election, issued a papal bull hence-
forth prohibiting all interference
from without under pain of excom-
munication.

On the morning of the eleventh
day, the cardinal dean celebrates
holy Mass in the Pauline chapel, at
which his fellow cardinals assist
and receive Holy Communion. In a
sermon they are then reminded of
the importance of the coming elec-
tion and of their duty to vote for
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their places, prayers are said for
a successful election; whereupon all
those not having a vote must leave,
one of the cardinals bolting the door
after them.

Having drawn up their ballot, the
cardinals fold them in such a way
that only the name of their candi-
date appears. Then each one ad-
vances to the altar, on which are
six lighted candles, a crucifix, and a
large silver chalice with paten.
Kneeling down, the cardinal places
his ballot in the chalice, at the same
time reciting the following oath:
"I call to witness the Lord Christ,
Who will be my judge, that I am
electing the one whom according to
God I think ought to be elected."

All ballots being thus deposited,
they are counted. If their number
agrees with the number of cardinals
present, they pass through the
hands of three cardinals. The last
one reads aloud the names as they
occur, and all the other cardinals
meanwhile check them off on a list
of the members of the Sacred Col-
lege. Strictly speaking, it is not
necessary that the candidate to the
papacy be a cardinal. The Church
is the most democratic institution
in the world. Any man, lay or cleric,
is eligible, provided he has other
requisites demanded by Canon Law.
The fact is, however, that since 1378,
it was always a cardinal on whom
the choice happened to fall.

Nor is it necessary that the vote
be cast for an Italian. Germans,
Frenchmen, Spaniards, Greeks, one
Englishman, and one Hollander have
been elected. But the last time that
a non-Italian received the required
two-thirds majority was exactly four
hundred years ago, on January 9,
1522, when Adrian VI, a Hollander
of humble parentage, was elected.

Two-thirds of the votes cast, ex-
clusive of one's own, are necessary
for election. It may happen that the
vote is very close, that, for instance,
out of sixty votes cast, a candidate
receives forty. In that case, his
own ballot is opened, it having been
identified by means of a text from
Holy Scripture which the respective
cardinal had previously placed on it
for that purpose. If it is found that
he voted for himself, which, of
course, is not very likely to happen,
the entire balloting is declared null
and void. What does happen at

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almost every election, however, is
that the required two-thirds vote is
not immediately obtained. As often
as that occurs, the ballots are put
into a little stove and burned to-
gether with some moist straw. As*
a result, of course, a thick black'
smoke passes out through the spec-
ially prepared chimny, a sign for the
people below that no pope has been
elected.

But if a two-thirds majority has
been obtained, the ballots alone are
burned, producing a thin, white
smoke, from which the people know,
that an election has resulted.

As soon as a candidate receives
two-thirds of the votes, the cardinal
dean approaches him and asks
whether he will accept the election
and by what name he wishes to bei
known during his pontificate. In
reply, the chosen candidate says:
"Since it is the will of God, I musiji
obey," and then states by what name
he wishes to be known. Since the
year 955, other historians say 1009,i
it is customary that the pope goes
by a name other than his baptismal
and family name, just as our Lord
changed the name of St. Peter, who
was the first pope, from Simon to
Peter.

Now first is the door to the con-
clave opened to admit the various
secretaries and servants. While the
newly elected pope is in a neighbor-
ing room and putting on the papal
robes, the master of ceremonies low-
ers the canopies over the thrones,
except that over the one occupied
by the pope-elect. When the pope
has taken his place on the throne
meanwhile prepared for him, the
cardinals approach and pay him the
first "obedience" or "homage." By
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fisherman's ring is placed on his
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proclamation of the election and the
solemn introduction of the pope to
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to the great delight of the people,
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dignitaries apeared as formerly on
the outside balcony of the basilica,
overlooking the piazza or court-yard.
Although it was raining at the time,
a vast croud was gathered there to
see the Holy Father and to receive
his first blessing.

A solemn hush fell on the surging
multitude, when the aged Cardinal
Bisleti stepped forward and ex-
claimed:

• "I announce to you great joy: we
have as pope the Most Reverend and
Most Eminent Cardinal Achilles
Ratti, who has chosen the name of
Pius XI."

At this, the Holy Father in his
white papal robes passes between
the group of cardinals and advan-
ces to the railing, while a prolonged
"Long live the Pope! Long live Pius
XI!" was rending the air. On the
steps of the basilica stood the papal
Swiss Guard with their white ban-
ner, and along the facade of the
basilica were lined the government
troops, selected from the Berseglieri,
Alpineri, and Royal Guard. As soon
as the banner of the Royal State
appeared, they all presented arms
and saluted. This impressive act is
now looked upon as a most import-
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matic relations between the Vatican
and the Quirinal, a thing the late
Pope Benedict XV so earnestly en-
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the entire world is longing for.

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of all, when His Holiness declared
that the blessing he was about to
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present before him but for the en-
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as the Father of Christendom
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between the nations. All now knelt
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WHEN I was a little boy my
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gested books was "Have
they pictures in them?" By this
test a geography text enlivened
with groupings of wild animals of
the various countries and climes
became more interesting than Plut-
arch's Lives of Illustrious Men or
Gulliver's Travels unillustrated.
Likewise, Prescott's ponderous His-
tory of Mexico and Shakespeare's
complete works, the one adorned
with colored plates, the other with
a unique picture to each play, were
as often to be seen in infant hands
as was Ann, Jane and Adelaide
Taylor's Original Poems for Infant
Minds. And while the Ballads of
Ireland had its charms, at an early
age, it was rivaled by a huge col-
lection of legends and tales of Ire-
land interspersed by occasional
ruins, towers, castles and peasants.
With some satisfaction of a vain
nature I have sine learned that my
"infant mind" has grasped, or even
discovered, a principle of education
later formulated for me in these
words :

"Primary concepts must be taught
objectively in all grades." You have
noticed the frequency of illustra-
tions in new books of to-day. High
school and college texts abound in
wood cuts and engravings, diagrams
and photographs. Biography, phi-
losophy, fiction, and history demon-
strate the reign of the picture. Such
writers as the Reverend Fathers
William Kirby, John A. Ryan, Jo-
seph Husslein, and other deter-
mined and temperamental men and
women may produce books such as
Social Reconstruction, The Church
and Labor, The Social Mission of
Charity, Religion and Health, The
History of Ethics, The Reformation,
without a break in the flow of type.
But these are exceptional among the
myriad books with pictures in them.
And now that the greater part of
the book-publishing and book-read-
ing world have come to hold my
early test for books, sadly, I am
forced to abandon it. One does not
wish a constant pursuit of the pri-

mary concepts. Take for an exam}
pie of the illustrated books of to-dajj
that unique and powerfully sensibL
book, The University in Overalls, b;J
Alfred Fitzpatrick of Frontier Col
lege, Toronto, Canada. This is ;j
book of practical, constructive phij
losophy, the demonstration of
idea. The author holds that all
labor should be accounted part o:
our university educational system!
since the ability to plow a furrovjr,
and hew or fell a tree implies sfl
certain acquired skill which ill
education:

"Education means the related acl
tivity of all the members of the bodjl
by the direction and command of thcl
mind .... A man's hands are a:
aristocratic as his brains."

A book full of sayings as wisej
clear and clever as this ought to b«i
readable in cold print. A book sc
generous and broad as to advocate
the extension of university stand-
ards and culture to lumber camp*]
should need, one would suppose, n<|
popular illustrations. Yet this boor
is rich with pictures. For example
if the author says; on page sixty-
four: "Another reason why settle
ment is at a standstill in our great
clay belts to-day is the absence 01
women from the land .... Settle-
ment in the wooded lands of north-
ern Canada will be encouraged wher
women are granted land on exactlj
the same terms as the men;" ac-
companying this comment is a pic-
ture of a woman, attired in overalls,
blouse and high boots, sorting or in-
specting a heap of vegetables. As
woman is not a "primary concept"
to adult readers, it is puzzling to
divine why the author or publisher
deemed it valuable to present the
picture. There are many interest-
ing and curious possibilities in ex-i
planation.

There are many books to be read.
(This is one explanation of the pic-
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must cram to cover the new popular
books. We must hurry, and — we are
sometimes fatigued with the effort.
The picture comes as a relief, a
break, an enforced rest in our gob-

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panying evolution of our own great
thoughts. We are skimming, and
but for the assistance of the eye-
sight we might miss a point which is
embodied in the picture as well as
in the text. Professor Fitzpatrick's
book shows us a good, clear picture
of a cut of logs from northern New
Brunswick, with the title: "The
Frontiers produce much of our
wealth." He shows also the interior
of a bunk house, of a bunk car, an
ideal lumber camp, Frontier College
scenes in the lumber camps, farms,
mines, and other community educa-
tional camps. Pictures, therefore,
are the last device in pressing home
a point by means of books. The
author of the University in Overalls
is determined that no condition of
jaded memories, distraction and ab-
sorption in other fields, lack of
travel or dependence on the physi-
cal senses shall prevent his readers
from getting the full force of his
timely volume. Hence we must be
reconciled again to the book with
pictures.

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slein and Ryan, might be improve
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point a cut of a church, of the Ho
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ingenuous artist who will devise i
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mas and spiritual motives has hi
field ready for him. If only tc
right effects could be obtained b
surprising the reader with the ui'
expected presentation of a churc:
scene, a peaceful fireside, a worl'
man's home! These are being le
to the Catholic Art association, an
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would be unseemly. In this matte
the publishers of books have pei
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FRANCISCAN HERALD

March, 1922

We are continuing herewith the list, begun in the February issue, of the kind benefactors who so gener-
ously remembered our poor Indian missions during the Holy Season.

ALABAMA— Mobile : J. R. C, C. C. P.,
M. E. P.
ARIZONA — Tucson: A. W. R.

COLORADO — Boulder: F. M. D.; Den-
ver: C. U. K.; Pueblo: H. F. G.

CONNECTICUT— Bethel: M. T.; Bridge-
port: A. M. A., C. D., M. J. M. ; Bristol:
J. V. T.; Danbury: J. J. M., M. E„ J. S..
E. A. B., H. E. D.; Glastonbury: G. C;
Greenwich: A. B., M. M. C, F. Q., M. B.,
M. B., T. O'S., A. B.; Hartford: C. J. R., A.
B. G.. A. T., V. A. M., J. M., C. J. F. ; Mid-
dletown: H. M. G.; New Haven: E. K.. M. E.
B., C. A. S., B. F. ; New London: A. E. P.,
H. I>., .(. R., R. D. :Plainfield: E. V.; Ster-
ling: A. T. B.; Sunbury: S. A. K.

CANADA — Chatham: N. M., J. T., J. S.;
Quebec: J. G.; WalkerviUe : N. J. G.;
Windsor: C. P. M.

CALIFORNIA — Alhambra: F. B.; Berk-
eley: M. K., M. A. N., F. E. G., J. R.;
Clifford: T C; Cordelia: J. C. A.; Crockett:
A N.; Cazadero: E. E. M.; Chico:
J. K. ; Eureka: P. D.; Fairfax: J. J. B.
Sr ; PreBno: D. A. G.; Glendale: H.
H.J Gonzales: C. B.; Gustine: A. A.;
Hayward: F. S. B. ; Hollywood: M.
H K. A W.; Huntington Beach: XV. M.
A • Huntington Park: A. U M.J Irvington:
M. V. P., R. F. S.; Lodi: J. P.; Sebastopol:
A. R. P.; Long Beach: A. G., A. R.. T. D.
B ' Los Angeles: M. P., A. M., M. D., L. J..
L. K , L, \V., K. M., A. R., L. G„ M. W.,
A. F. H., J. M., T. R., F. W., A. G.,
P. C, L. M. S., A. J. L.. A. M., T. K. A.,
M McM., E. C. G.. C. R., M. R., K. R.,
J. J. B., M. J. H., M. C, H. K., W. H.,
J. J. F., M. McT., M. Y., G. G, P. R. W.,
E. J. M„ A. E. D.. M. G., V. L., L. E. D.,
G. J., H. P. V.; Martinez: L. L., M. S. E..
J. P. F., G. P. K.; Marysville: A. G. ;
Mokelumne Hill: G. B. S. ; Monterey: S.
R , M. O. ; Mountain View: M. O. S.; Napa:
E A. F.; Oakland: M. F.. K. T. H., H.
McM., N. H., A. C, F. C. McD., J. L. F„
J. F. ON., J. M. B., A. G., A. G, M. O.,
T M A. B. M„ J. C. D., McM., M. T.,
M M, S. G., M. B. M., M. R., T. M„
M A.; Pasadena: W. C, G. F., M. S. T.;
Plymouth: S. L. Sr.: Sacramento: M. C. L.,
\ M ; San Diego: F. F., K. H.; San Fran-
cisco: M. M., D. B., A. N., F. K.. C. S.,
3 XV.. G. S., M. E.. F. P., F. F., F. B. R.,
T C, A. S., J. K„ M. McC, T. J. K.,
C T G. K.. J. C. J. D., M. B., M. A. H.,
E. J., J. XV. H.. J. B. G, M. P., M. B„
J A D F.. J. F. C. A. W., E. B„ R. D„
K D., P St., E. M., M. L., N. C, F„
M. E. C, G. C. M.. M. K., S. E. M.,
L. C, M. H., A. F.. J. K.. B. L., M. E. C,
E. M. O'C.; San Jose: A. It .: San Leonardo:
A G.' San LuiB Obispo: I. D. L. ; Santa
Ana: E B.: Santa Barbara: G. R., C. H.,
H. R., C. M. S., U. L., I. D. E., S. C.
J B C M. L., R. K .; South Berkeley:
M R : Vallejo: W. K., R. G. W.; South
Vallejo: V. D.; Stockton: M. C. L., A. S„
L. A.; Visalia: E. L.; Willows: F. B. W.

DELAWARE — Wilmington: Li. H., F.
E. B., E. A. E.

FLORIDA — Ormand: J. E. S. ; Pensacola:
W. J. H.

IDAHO — Blackfort: O. R. SI.; Lewiston:
J. S.; Moscow: D. M. H„ T. T., E. A.,
A. C.J Twin Falls: K. D.

ILLINOIS — Aviston: F. E. : Aurora: G.
YV E S Blootmington: N. A. E. ; Belle-
ville: J. S.; Bradford: A. S.; Breese: F. H.;
CarroUten: N. C; Champaign: J. C. R.,
O. R.j Chicago: C. T.. E. G.. G. H., C. E. C.
M. Q., P. A. B„ M. H., C. P., J. B., C. G. J.,
G. O., J. M„ A. L., M. L„ T. M., A. D.,
W. G, C. McC, J. J. F., C. M. C, M. R.,
G. K, R. O'C, M. S.. E. McG., J. R.,
J. H., J. W. D., G. J., S. F. L., C. R.,
M. S., H. C. C, B. N., M. M., J. S.,
P. J. K., J. K., J. H., J. M. R.. J. B.,
A. J. B„ V. L., J. J. D., M. J. D., W. J. P..
M A B., J. M. Y.. M. H., B. N., W. F. C,
M. M„ M. L„ R. C, N. L., J W., P. E. C.
C K, I O. B., A. J., H. M., G. J. McK.,
A. J. M., E. S.. K. M„ K. H., F. S., M. K.,
N K„ M. H., J. G, J. W. K.. P. J. M.,
M. B., M. V. S.. D. H., F. S.. J. O. O.,
D. C. M., A. M. R., J. O'B., XV. H. E.. J. J.
L. S. M. G.. J. F. B.. C. M., T. A.,
P W D.. J. J. F.. M. W., M. D.. M. D.,
M P J. D., M. McP., M. M., M. O'H.,

L. D„ C. L., M. L., E. T., C. P. L„ D. T.,

E. R. J., McD., C. F. C, L. M. M., J. F. P.,
A. M. K., R. McG, V. XV., C. F. T„
J. O'L., M. S., S. W„ M. M. M.. J. F. T.,

F. K., K. E. D., J. J., E. M., M. G,
A. M. R., E. M .: Chicago Heights: A. K.,
.1. H. V., C. S.; Carlinsville : \V. R. S. R.;
Casey: R. J. F.: Chester: M. I). S., M. T.J
East St. Louis: C. J., S. M. II.; Effingham:
M. W.J Elmhurst: C. D.; Greenfield: A. J.;
Forest Park: A. S.; Geneseo: X. C.i Gil-
lespie: C. F. ; Juliet: A. G., M. K„ J. F. B.,
M. D., J. P. McP., Mrs. H., N. M.; Howard:
J. K. ; Lovington: J. B. ; High wood: P. R.;
Kankakee: G. (>., N. G.: Ladd: T. T.; La
Grange: J. I. M.; La Salle: A. S., J. E.;
Marshall: K. 1> .: Mattoon: L. M. : Mendota:
J. S. N.: Oak Park: M. C.J Oblong: K. K. ;
Pana: C. B."; Peru, S. S.. A. S. : Mollne:

G. H.; Pesotum: Wm. R. Sr. ; Prairie Du
Rocher: J. D. R.; Quincy: C. W., J. J.,

F. W., F. W.. A. S., W. H.; Raymond:
E. W.J River Forest: J. J. W.J Rochelle:
C. R.; Springfield: W. J. N.. E. B., E. A.
N„ J. C. B., J. O'B.; Streator: A. G.,
M. S., A. W.J Trowbrige: H. McC: Teu-
topolis: S. A., M. F. P. ; WiUow Hill: T. H..
P. H.: Worden: J. H., M. E. G.J Washing-
ton Park: H. B.; West Brooklyn: P.
De W.

INDIANA — Decator: J. F. C, R. N„
J. S. C, E. S.; Elkhart: W. R.J Fort Wayne:
A. C XV. H. J. SI.. X. X., W. H. N., A. O.,

G. S.. H. G., H. H., L. X., G. R., L. A.;
Gary: M. T. W.J Greensburg: L. F. ; Hunt-
ington: J. G., F. G.; Indianapolis: E. C K.,
G. A. L., J. G., H. V. C. M. B.. W. K.,
H. J. L., E. A. M., J. L., J. H.. C. J.:
Lafayette: H. XV. G.. H. W. G; Logans-
port: J. J. M.. E. M. K., A. S.; Loose Creek:
C. v.: MinneapoUs: F. P. W.i Mishawaka:
S. J. G., E. M.J Morris: A. D.; New Carlisle:

P. V.. L. C, F. F. B., F. H., E. F., H. G ,]
C. A., J. V.. C. J. A., J. B., A. M., R. M, '
M. S., W. F., J. O., L. A. F.. J. W., D. P., I

E. I.., U I.).. M. W., J. D. M.. A. D. M,,
A. C, D. M.. M. D. II., A. B.. \V. R. t
W. R. M. G, B. J. C, H. J. K., B. C,
M. D., M. M., J. K., O. I... 1). K. t
M. S., J. V., V. S.. M. P.. T. E.. .1 M.,
A. R., A. G. K.. M. \V. ; New Iberia: R.
De B.; Wickliffe: E. S.. A. S.

MONTANA — Anaconda: G. V .: Dillon:
F. ; Lewiston: C. B.J Philipsburg: T. R.;
Roundup: J. J. 11.. I.. J. C.

MASSACHUSETTS — Boston: I.. D. M.
Y.; Beverly: M. A. O'G.J Andover: M. G.,
M. G., A. C.J Atlantic: M. M.J Bedham: J.
M. H.; Brighton: L. II.: Brocton: E. P.;
Brookline: D. «'., B.J Burlington: C. B., J.
E.: Cambridge: M. I). H, A. I... A. I...
C. F. S.. C S„ L. O. R., L. V. I... W. H..
M. S., E. M. S., X. H.; Charlestown: F.
D., F. XV. H., T. C, E. B. McK.; Cherry
Valley: E. J., McD.: Clinton: M. McX.,
P. F.; Dorchester: A. F. D., P. 1 >.. B. S.,
M. A. C. D. J. S., M. A. C. F. G. E.;
Cambridge: M. E., J. E. K., M. E. G. E.;
Derham: P. J. S. E.; Lynn: J. P. C.J East
Wey Mouth: F. McC. J Everett: A. S. D^,

F. F. D„ K. A.: PaU River: .1. •'. S. l-\,
M. R., M. C. A. L. D.. M. A. N. R. B.,
F V., M. E. S., M. E. F.; Palrhaven: M. E.
O. D.: PayviUe: M. X., A. E. M. M. C;
Franklin: M. E. B.; Hudson: A. T. M.;
Hyde Park: J. T. McC. A. R., M. G. J.J
Gardner: K. T. L., K. A. L. ; Jamaica Plain:

K., E. T. D., G. R.. J. P

'Vouchsafe, O Lord, to reward

with eternal life all who,

for Thy Name's sake,

do us good!"

J. R„ S. M., M. M., H. M.J Notre Dame:
P. R. M. L...A. K.: Peru: P. M. K., M. G.;
Planesville: E. K.J Seymour: M. F. ; Shel-
byville: F. S., C. B.; Tell City: C. F. H.;
Terre Haute: J. H., A. E. XV., H. F. H.,
A. H., M. K., J. F. H., S. A. H.; Vincennes:
A. \\'., M. F.J Whiting: J. C.

IOWA — Anamosa: L. N.: Chelsea: F. J.
B.; Buckingham: J. C; Brayton: A. B.;
Brooklyn: M C : Davenport: A. Q.; Dyer-
vUle: V. J. C.J Dubuque: R. J. S. B.. S. I.,
XV. J. K. ; Early: A. H. : Parley: F. T.;
Gilbert: I. G.; GilbertviUe: A. F .; Glidden:
W. J. S.; Greene: L. XV. K.: Keota: W. C.
P.: Lawrence: B. W. W.J Manley: M. W.J
Mason: C. Y.. J. O'C: Muscatine: M. K.J
Nashua: B. F. : New Hampton: P. M.;
Pocahontas: J. A. H . W. J. P.: Sioux City:
D. McC; Washington: A J. W.J Waterloo:
A. S.. F. S. R. S. ; Oelwein: J. F. S.:
Harpers Ferry: B. G. B. ; Port Dodge: B.
A. D.J Ponda: J. T. W.

KENTUCKY — Bowling Green: M. H.
W.J Covington: A. J. Q., E. S ; Lexington:
M. B.: Louisville: A. S., A. M., McC. H.
J. K., X. B.. M. S.. A. S. D., M. D.. W S..

A. S. IC. D. S., E. II.: Newport: J. H..
M. M.: Owensboro: T. 1..: Shively: M. K. :
Paris: J. S.

KANSAS — Atchison: E. S.: Bellefort:

C. A.: Beloit: S. Y., B. A. M., J. A. S.:
Clyde: M. B. ; Cunningham: .1. S. : Ellin-
wood: P. S., E. M.; Harper: J. M.: Junc-
tion City: M. H. K.: Kansas City: S. M.,
H., L. A. S.: Leavensworth: P. H., XV. H..

B. K., B. H. E. : Ogden: I. G.: Topeka:
H. J. W.. H. J. W.J Wright: B. S.: Spear-
ville: J. C. E.

LOUISIANA — Addis: H. F.: Algiers: G.

D. XV.. A F. D.. C XV. R.. F. D. ; Amelia:
J. S. A: Church Point: P. R. B.: Generette:
B. K.; Xenner: J. C. M. C; Klotsville:
J. U. F ; Lobdell: J. E. F.: Monroe: S. F.
S : Mark: \Y G.J Morgan City: C. S.J New
Orleans: L. D., R. J. B., J. J. C, F. N.,

M. C; Lawrence: E. C.J Leominster: M.
■I M ; L vnii: S. D., E. A. D.J Marblehead:
J F N T P.: Marlboro: J. R.; Mattapan:
B F, XV. J. W., C. P. D.: Medford: J. C.
M.J MUton: G. XV. B.; New Bedford: E. M.,
G. T. M.. M. N., M. P.. J. J. S., M. R. S.,
M. D„ XV. J. S.; Newton: .1. H. ; Newton-
ville: X. S. X.: Boston: E A, O'C. -\'.:
Easton: M. C, J. F. C. T. H. X.; Grafton:
C.'F., C C.J Randolph: D. P.. McC; Rock-
land: H M. T. i\; Roxbury: B. O. S.. C.

E. McG., P. H. XV., A. M., N. F. B., C O.;
Quincy: J. P. S.: Salem: E. McK., W. B.,
M S. D., W. H. O'B.; SomerviHe: M B.
McC, Rev. D. V. F. S.; Boston: J. W. F,
A D. S : Hamilton: D. McD ; Springfield:
J R. L.. M. D., J. B.. B. A. H„ M. O'B.;
Taunton: M. A. S.. E. M., P. B., M. J. T.;
Wakefield: E. A. S.; West Medford: I M :
West Quincy: A. L.J Watertown: G. E. R.J
■Waltham: J. W.J West SomerviUe: X. J.
G.J Whitingsville : M. F.. P M .; Woburn:
.1. M ; Worcester: J. II.. J M., O. B.. F.
M M . M. McC. E. F., A. B., H. M. B .
I.. C J. 1'..: Waltham: M. I'... P. B.J West
Lynn: F. J. C.J Wolburn: T. K

MISSISSIPPI — Bay St. Louis: L. II :
Eiloxi: J T : Pascagonla: W. B.

MICHIGAN — Anchorville: E. R.; Au-
burn: E. D. ; Calumet: T. C; Bad Axe:
P. M.; Detroit: M. C. P.. G. M., J. H.,»
A H., F. H.. Mrs. B., F. H., C. H„ A. S., •
A. P. N„ A. J. C, R. K., M. \V.. C. J. H.,
J R., O. XV.. J. XV. K., F. A. R., X. M.j
T. T.. M. B.. W. R.. J. A. G, T. P. D., M. D.j
Dodgeville: J. C; Grosse Pointe Park: E.
B : East Detroit: M E. M.; Pairhaven:

A. V.; Grand Rapids: J. E. B., J I VJ
F J. A., A. E. M., T. J. C, J M BJ
.1 P. M., M. H., E. B„ XV. K.: Highland
Park: A. B., H. J. B.: Jackson: M. F. D.J
Ironwood: C H. S„ L. J. W.J Ishpeming:
R. J., G. Jr.; Memphis: A. R.J Murissing:
K G.; Port Huron: F. S . M. M.: Saginaw:
C C. R. S.. R. B.. G. R : Kalamazoo: Mi
M : Laurium: J. W. S.; Hubble: I s.

MAINE — Augusta: B. S ; Brunswick:
D. C M ; Lewiston: S. E. F.; Portland:

F. C

MARYLAND — Baltimore: B. L., H. B.
A.. C. R., J. J. F„ E. J., A. B.. M. D.,
W. F. M.. M. A. I... M. M., M. F. S.. B. K„
J. F. R., D.. R. T., H. K.. M. 1 >., II. K„
E J.. M L., A. E., J. E. M.: Cumberland:

B. M., T. F. W., B. M. M., T. C. S.; Solo-
mons: R. M. B. A.

This list will be concluded in the next
issue.

March, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

141

OBITUARY

The charity of our readers is asked for
the following deceased readers of Fran-
ciscan Herald and friends of our missions :
Borne, Italy — Our Holy Father, Bene-
dict the XV.; Detroit, Mich. — L. C. Ver-

flmette: Mrs. M. Cook; Edward Holthofer;
:Mrs. Rose Kuptz; Mrs. M. Kelly; Mrs. A.

(Weber; Mrs. Mary Worzalla; Miss Alice

['Meyer; Mrs. Lyons; Holland — Mrs.
.Adeline Coolbaugh; Menasha, Wis. — Mrs.

IH. Walburn; Racine, Wis. — Mrs. G. Miller;
Niagara, Wis. — Wilfred H. Richard; Casco,

I Wis. — Mrs. Kinard; St. Paul, Minn. — Mr.
Brown; Magdalena Gerlach; Mrs. Margaret
Lennon; Siegrel, 111. — Mrs. Anna Deters;
Joliet, 111. — Mrs. M. McFadden; Mrs. M.
Kolb; Monticello, 111. — Miss Spurling; St.
louis, Mo. — Mrs. Korte; Claflin, Kas. —

I I Mrs. Patrick Finnin; Leavenworth, Kas. —
IF. Burke; Dyersville, la. — Mr. Nebel;

Bremerton, Wash. — Catherine Driscoll;
Seattle, Wash. — Wm. Doyle; Kansas City,
Mo. — J. N. Gerew; San Francisco, Calif. —

I Mrs. N. O'Connor; Coving-ton, Ky. — Mrs. C.

II Nienaber; Middleton, Ohio — Mrs. Rose
'Hogan; Cleveland, Ohio — Mr. Chambers;
.Philadelphia, Pa. — John Forsythe; Isabella
(Forsythe, James Forsythe; William For-
Isythe; William McErlean; Jane McErlean;
i Joseph Reppert ; Cresson, Pa. — Anne
i Criste; Scranton, Pa. — Agnes Michas;' Anna
■ Xathius; Tyrone, Pa. — Mrs. Catherine
|| Difio; Altoona, Pa. — Mrs. McCullougii;

Honesdale, Pa. — Mrs. T. Fleaderbach;
, Hollidayshurg. Pa. — Mr. Lisher; New
| York, N. Y. — Mr. and Mrs. J. S. McGold-
|! rick; Michael Farley; Charles Farley; Pat-

rick O'Brien; Mrs. Casey; Cecelia B.
Rolker; Brooklyn, N. Y.— Air. Tyrell; Miss
M. Valentine; Joseph Boline; Emily A.
Bowers; Syracuse, N. Y. — Mrs. Mary M.
Blakeman; James O. Hern; Thomas Hur-
ley; Mrs. Anna M. Scully; Mrs. H. N.
Doonan; Auburn, N. Y. — Mathew W. Mc-
Queeney; Mrs. W. P. Lucas; Utica, N. Y. —
Mrs. C. Howard; James B. McKenney;
John A. Long; Joseph L. Korff; Michael
Coyle; Oswego, N. Y. — Mrs. Ross; Canan-
daigua, N. Y. — Denis McNamara; Roch-
ester, N. Y. — Miss F. Link; Eayonne, N.
I. — Mr. and Mrs. Andrew flichny, Sr. ;
John Mezean ; Pasaic, N. J. — Thomas
Coffey; Newark, N. J.— Mrs. L. McFeeley;
Baltimore, Md. — Clara Pfaff; Belmont,
Mass. — Mrs. Whelan; Rosebank, long-
Island — Leonard Mecca; Nicholas Danti;
Winamac, Ind. — F. J. Gross; Earl Park,
Ind, — Mrs. A. Schluttenhofer; New Or-
leans, la. — Mr. A. Sarradet; Bertha Monte-
cino; Tecumseh, Ont., Can. — R. T. Le
Boeuf; Amherstburg. Ont., Can. — Mrs. P.
Depuis; Chicago, HI. — Mrs. Anastasia
Drummond; Edward J. McGee; Miss A.
Kopf; R. J. Healy; Trenton, N. J. — John
Cannon; Danville, Kas. — Mrs. August
Dronhard; Hyattsville, Md. — Mary Agnes
Beadle; Newry, Pa. — Mrs. Anna Nowland;
Teutopolis, HI. — John Runde; Catherine
Wernsing; Seattle, Wash. — Patrick Burns;
Indianapolis, Ind. — Mrs. Catherine Mc-
Hugh.

LET US PRAY— We beseech Thee,
therefore, assist the souls still suffering
in purgatory, whom Thou hast redeemed
with Thy Precious Blood. (Three hundred
days every time.)

INTENTIONS

The following intentions are recom-
mended to the pious prayers of our
readers:

For postulants for the Sisterhood (20).
For the recovery of property (3). For
success in a law-suit (3). For the con-
version of a husband and father (10).
For the conversion of children (20).
•For the conversion of relatives (2o). For
the recovery of sick persons (25). For the
recovery of stolen articles. For the
profitable sale of property (5). For a
suitable place for business. For the
happy choice of a state of life (15). For
success in a charitable undertaking. For
the return of a husband to his home. For
better understanding in a family. For
cure from a goitre. For relief against a
serious danger. For cure from the drink
habit. For cure from nervous and mental
trouble (15). For success in studies (10).
For successful examination in dentistry.
For recovery of speech. For grace to
avoid the occasion of sin (251. For a reli-
gious vocation (10). For the grace of
final perseverance (10). For suitable em-
ployment (40). For a happy marriage
(5). For vocations to the priesthood in
the Order of St. Francis. For strength
enough to work. For thanksgiving to the
Sacred Heart. In honor of St. Anthony
for the recovery of jewelry. For special
intentions (45). For the souls in purga-
tory. For the spread of the Third Order.
For our Holy Father, Pius XI. In thanks-
giving for favors received (20).

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Thy suppliants; and that Thou mayest
grant them their desires, make them ask
such things as please Thee, through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Holy Land — According to the
latest statistics, 344 Franciscans
are in charge of 61 of the Holy
Places. Their friaries are 56 in
number. They attend 73 parishes
and missions, besides conducting 9
hospices for pilgrims, 59 schools,
and 9 workshops or industrial
schools.

Rennes, France — The late Arch-
bishop of Rennes, His Eminence
Cardinal Dubourg, was an enthusi-
astic tertiary. Shortly before his
demise, he had the happiness of
celebrating, in the little Franciscan
chapel, the fiftieth anniversary of
his reception into the Third Order.
It was as a newly ordained priest, in
1870, that he recieved the tertiary
cord and scapular.

Rouen, France — The French
Chamber of Deputies unanimously
ratified the following proposal pre-
viously sanctioned by the Upper
House: Article 3. There shall be
erected in honor of Joan of Arc, in
the marketplace where she was
burned at the stake, a monument
with this inscription: "To Joan of
Arc by the grateful people of
France."

Nice, France — General M. Leddet,
who died recently at Nice, was a
devout member of the Third Order.
At the time of his retirement from
public life, he was Governor of the
Isle of Corsica.

Tyrol — From the report drawn up
at the recent National Centenary
Convention in Trent, we learn that
the numerical extent of the Third
Order in southern Tyrol is as fol-
lows: under the jurisdiction of the
Capuchin friars are 202 fraternities
with 146,778 tertiaries, of whom
12,000 are men; while the Fran-
ciscan friars have charge of 148
fraternities, with a total membership
of 22,000, of whom 4,000 are men.

Quebec, Canada — The growth of
the Third Order fraternity in the
Sacred Heart parish, this city, is
truly phenomenal. It was estab-

lished about a year ago and already
it numbers some three hundred mem-
bers.

Sioux City, Iowa — Though not
the very latest, it will be pleasant
news nevertheless to hear that the
Tertiaries of Sioux City have again
organized. On December 18, their
zealous Director had the happiness
of receiving twenty-eight new mem-
bers. A business meeting was held,
after the services in church. The
Rev. Director is thinking of organiz-
ing the ladies of the fraternity into
a Sewing Circle for the benefit of
the needy missions.

Rice, Arizona — Three months ago,
on December 14, Fr. Justin Deutsch,
till now missionary among the
Pimas and Papagos, has undertaken
to bring the light of the true faith
to the Apaches of the White Moun-
tain district, Navajo County, Ari-
zona. There are about 2,600
Apaches on this reservation. Till
now, no Catholic priest has been
stationed among them. The Super-
intendent, Mr. Charles L. Davis, wel-
comed Fr. Justin most cordially and
allowed him a pretty little cottage
until a church and residence could
be built. On January 22, Fr. Justin
baptized three little half-Apache
girls. These are therefore, the
first-fruits of the new mission.

Joliet, 111.— The Tertiaries of Jol-
iet have pledged themselves to sup-
port the mission day-school of St.
Anthony, at Topawa, among the
Papago Indians. This is but a link
of our chain of day-schools in the
Papago and Pima regions. Since
last summer six of these schools
are taken care of by the Catholic
Indian Bureau. Thus, with the help
coming from the Tertiaries of Joliet
and the Indian Bureau, the existence
of all but four of our schools is
assured.

San Solano Mission, Arizona —
Recently, an appeal was made to the
German branch of the Third Order
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of St. Peter's Church, Chicago
through its devoted director, Fr
Conradin, for the sum of $75. Thii
was to be used to furnish the rooiJ
of the missionary, adjoining, thJ
church of Santa Rosa which waa
erected by these same Tertiaries!
The appeal was not in vain. In a
few days, the money arrived, thanka
to the zeal of Fr. Conradin and o:
his generous Tertiaries. They majj
be sure that our Indians will not]
forget them in their prayers.

Quincy College, Quincy, 111. — Or.
January 16, the so-called Hilgefl
Trio gave a concert in the audito-
rium of Quincy (Franciscan) ColJ
lege. The three youthful artists are]
sisters — two still in their teens andl
the eldest but twenty-one — and grad-!
uated with highest honors from thei
Royal Academy of Music in Vienna,;
Austria, in 1918. They came to this 1
country about a year ago. While
Maria and Greta are finished artists
on the violin and piano, Elsa, thq
youngest, has been declared by The'
Musical Observer the greatest liv-
ing cellist in the world. The pro-
gram arranged for our auditorium
comprised two cello solos, two violin
solos, a violin and cello duet, and a
trio for violon-cello, and piano. The
spontaneous and thunderous ap-
plause that followed each number
showed that the music lovers of
Quincy appreciated the truly phe-
nomenal artistry of these girls.
They had been heralded as prodigies
and they fully lived up to their rep-
utation. — On Sunday, December 11,
a few days before school closed for
the holidays, Fr. John Baptist, the
Director of the College Third Order
fraternity, received thirty-three can-
didates into the Order. Our fra-
ternity has now nearly reached the
hundred mark. Classes were re-
sumed on January 4; and on Janu-
ary 30-31, the mid-year examina-
tions were held.

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Volume X

APRIL, 1922

Number 4

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CONTENTS

EDITORIALS
Our Mission Picture — Thoughts for Holy
Week — Easter Joys — The Mission Play —
The Colored Claim — The International
Eucharistic Congress at Rome 147

THIRD ORDER DEPARTMENT

Chats with Tertiaries 151

By Fr. Giles, O. F. M.
The Office of Mother 153

By Agnes Modesta

MISSIONS

Franciscan Popular Missionary Activity. 156

By Fr. Honoratus Bonzelet, O. F. M.
In the Country of Unbelievable Dis-
tances 1 60

By Fr. Bonaventure, 0. F. M.

FICTION

Who Wins 162

By Blanche Weitbrec
The Blonde Angel 167

By Mary Dodge TenEyck

IN THE INTEREST OF WOMEN 169

By Grace Keon

FIRESIDE TALKS AND TALES 176

By Elizabeth Rose

MISCELLANEOUS

In the World of Books 182

By Paul H. Richards
The Passing of Winter 184

By E. Brooks Perry
Special Service Bureau 186

FRANCISCAN NEWS 190

Our Mission Picture

San Juan Capistrano. Pride of the Orange King-
dom. Interrupted by the San Diego revolt of Novem-
ber, 1775, and then delayed a whole year by the hostile
attitude of Comandante Rivera, this beautiful Mission
could not be definitely established till the feast of All
Saints, 1776. Fr. Junipero Serra dedicated it and then
left it in charge of Fr. Francisco de Lasuen. The old
records show how zealously the padres labored for the
Indians and how readily the Indians settled down to
Christian life at the Mission. Ey the end of 1820,
3,774 had been baptized, of whom 1,064 were still liv-
ing in that year. How Capistrano and its neophytes
suffered when confiscation swept over California's mis-
sions in the dress of secularization, is well known. It
was one of the finest and richest on the coast. What
wonder then that it was the first to be sold under the
hammer by the unscrupulous mission despoilers. Of
the various old buildings, one, well preserved, is known
as Serra's Church. Within its walls, as is now definite-
ly established, on October 10, 1783, ten months before
his saintly death, Fr. Junipero Serra preached and ad-
ministered Confirmation to the neophytes. No other
building of all those still extant at the various old mis-
sions in California can claim the distinction of having
once harbored the illustrious Apostle of California. Of
this the present pastor, Rev. St. John O'Sullivan, is
justly proud. The saddest event in the history of this
glorious Mission (barring its sale and subsequent
spoliation) is dated December 8, 1812. On that day,
the feast of the Immaculate Conception, during the
early Mass for adults, an earthquake so shook the
magnificent stone church that the roof and two towers
caved in and buried forty of the Indian worshippers
beneath the debris. The ruins may still be seen (our
cover page brings a picture of them), a mute but elo-
quent witness to the heroic zeal, enterprising spirit,
and artistic taste of those early missionaries.

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Thoughts for Holy Week

FROM the day our Lord spoke to St. Francis from
the crucifix in the little Church of St. Damian the
mystery of the Passion had so engrossed the soul of
St. Francis, that he could think of nothing but Jesus
crucified. So great was the compassion he felt in his
heart for his dear Savior, that the tears he shed al-
most robbed him of his eye-sight. Again and again
he admonished his brethren : "My brethren, I beseech
you, have the Passion of our Lord ever before your
eyes." His Order was always faithful to his request.
The renowned preachers of the Order achieved their
greatest successes in the conversion of the sinners
through the sermons on the sufferings and the death
of our Lord. The beautiful devotion of The Way of
the Cross was spread throughout the world by the
Franciscans and even to-day they have the reserved
right to erect the stations in the churches.

St. Bonaventure, O. F. M., tells us: "He who medi-
tates on the sufferings of our Lord with attention and
devotion will find all things in abundance." This devo-
tion will teach us the unbounded love of God for us;
it will convince us of the enormity and heinousness of
sin ; it will console us in our trials and tribulations ; it
will impress us with the true worth of our soul.

"Awaken, soul," says St. Augustine, "and consider
how much you are worth and at what price Our Savior
redeemed you. Count the hours of His thirty-three
years, the sighs He breathed, the drops of perspiration,
the steps He made, the strokes He received, the thorns
that pierced His sacred Head, the nails that fastened
Him to the cruel cross, the drops of blood He shed,
the heavy beam on which He hung and on which He
offered His life, on which He gave His soul for you.
All this cries out to you: '0 soul, so much are you
worth'!"

St. Bonaventure, called the Seraphic Doctor, not
only on account of his wonderful learning, but more so
for the great love that permeates all his writings, com-
posed a most beautiful series of prayers on The Pas-
sion of our Lord in .the form of a "Little Office."
This "Little Office of the Passion" we now have in
booklet form and we urge all our readers to procure a
copy of it for use during Lent and above all for the
Three Hour Agony (Tre Ore) on Good Friday.

may the Passion of the Lord,
Whereby salvation is restored,
The mind with love for Him inspire,
Our solace and our hearts' desire.

— St. Bonaventure.

Easter Joys

THE liturgical prayers of the Church are at al!
times most beautiful and impressive, but at nq
time more so than at the holy Mass of Easter Sunday,
The opening prayer (Introit) is intended to fill our
hearts with joy. In this prayer our dear Lord is rep-
resented, standing, as it were, in the opened grave,
bearing aloft the banner of triumph, shedding bright-'
ness all around, speaking to his Heavenly Father: "J
have risen and am still with Thee, Alleluia! Thou
hast laid Thy hand upon me (upon my human nature^
offering me the chalice of suffering and sustaining me
in my great agony). Thy knowledge is become won-
derful, Alleluia, Alleluia! Thou hast proved me and
known me: Thou hast known my down-sitting and my
uprising." Thou hast tried my love by offering me
suffering and death — Thou hast found me obedient, bui
Thou hast desired also my resurrection. This is the
beautiful morning prayer of the Risen Savior to his
Heavenly Father. Very appropriately does Holy
Mother church represent to us Jesus in His glorified;
state as addressing His first words to His Father in
heaven. Because His last words before His death were
also directed to him. "Father, into Thy hands I coia^
mend my spirit." This opening prayer of the Mass]
is an urgent invitation to us to rejoice with Jesus.

By His death on the cross, Jesus opened heaven not
only for Himself, but also for us — of this the Churchl
reminds us in the Collect or Prayer of the feast, "C
God, who on this day through Thine only-begotten son*
didst overcome death, and open unto us the gate oil
everlasting life ; as by Thy preventing grace Thou didst
breathe good desires into our hearts, so also by Thj
gracious help, bring them to good effect."

In the Epistle or Lesson St. Paul tells us what wc
must do to merit this grace of God, the grace that i)
so necessary for our real happiness. "Brethren, purg«
out the old leaven . . . for Christ our Pasch ii
sacrificed. Therefore, let us feast, not with the ol<
leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.'
A mere sorrow for our sins, a mere desire to be mor<
perfect is not enough — we must completely break witl
our evil ways. Christ, our Pasch, is sacrificed, ant
for us. By His death He overcame the devil and sir
and gained for us the grace and strength to succee*
and to persevere. We should, therefore, feast in sin
cerity and truth, confident that our Risen Lord wil
help us.

But now the Church can no longer restrain her Eas
ter joy. Trusting that the faithful have followed the ad
vice of St. Paul and have removed the old leaven o

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j sin and sinful habits in the Sacrament of Penance, and
! rejoicing, therefore, in this double resurrection of the
! Lord and His faithful, she proclaims to all (Gradual) :
! "This is the day which the Lord hath made ; let us
' rejoice and be glad in it. Give thanks to the Lord for
He is good and His mercy endureth forever. Alleluia,
Alleluia. Christ, our Pasch, is sacrificed." And in the
I Sequence we are again urged to give praise and thanks,
'because: "Together death and life in a strange con-
Iflict strove: the Prince of Life, who died, now lives
' and reigns."

We should rejoice in our hearts, and why? An
I angel, a messenger from heaven announces in the
I Gospel : "You seek Jesus of Nazareth, Who was cruci-
ified; He is risen, He is not here." By rising from the
I dead through His own power, Jesus confirms our be-
) lief in His divinity and in His miraculous power; He
j strengthens our hope in His mercy and in our own fu-
jture resurrection, and He enkindles in our hearts a
'great love for Him, our Redeemer.

The prayer at the Offertory teaches us, that since
3 Christ by His resurrection overcame His enemies, to
\ Him will be given the judgment over all creatures. In
[the Secret Prayer that follows, the priest beseeches
i God for a favorable judgment for all and asks Him to
I receive the prayers of the people, that this sacrifice
l) of the Mass, about to be offered, may profit them to
' life everlasting.

The Preface, or the introduction to the solemn parts

I of the Mass is most beautiful and full of praise and

I thanksgiving. "It is truly meet and just, right and

I; salutary at all times, indeed, to glorify Thee, Lord,

I but on this day more especially when Christ, our Pass-

I over, is sacrificed. For He is the true Lamb that took

I away the sins of the world. Who dying destroyed our

| death, and rising again, restored us unto life. Etc."

When this Lamb of God descends upon our altars at

| the Consecration, to enter into our hearts at Holy

Communion, there to dwell, then surely our Easter

joys will be complete, then we can rightly and justly

exclaim : "This is the day which the Lord hath made ;

let us rejoice and be glad in it."

By His resurrection our Lord perfected and crowned
a work which was essentially a work of love. This
His infinite love should be our model in our love
towards our neighbor. In the last prayer (Postcom-
munion) we petition God to grant us all the spirit of
love, of true charity. Today we honor Jesus as our
Conqueror, our King — let us show that this honor is
real by fulfilling His own great command, "Love one
another." "Pour down upon us, O Lord, the spirit of
Thy love, that by Thy mercy Thou mayest make of one
mind those whom Thou hast fed with the paschal
mysteries/'

The holy service is nearing its end. At the Blessing
we are dismissed with the words : "Depart, the Mass
is ended! Alleluia, Alleluia!" By adding this double
Alleluia, Holy Mother Church wishes to remind us
forcibly that although the services are over, our Easter
ijoys should not end.

FRANCISCAN HERALD joins in this wish by ask-
ing for all its readers the blessings of a holy Easter
joy.

The Mission Play

CALIFORNIA'S famous and beautiful pageant,
"The Mission Play," written by John Stephen Mc-
Groarty, is undoubtedly exerting a wholesome influence
in the way of killing prejudices against the Catholic
Church in this country. "My, but how those poor mis-
sionaries toiled and suffered for the Indians!" — "And
Father Serra, wasn't he just grand!" Such the very
words overheard by one who had the good fortune of
witnessing the wonderful pageant. They were spoken
by two young ladies who, to judge from other remarks
they made on the Play, were not Catholics. This whole-
some influence of Mr. McGroarty's charming produc-
tion non-Catholics are beginning to realize. Hence the
movement now on foot to supplant it by what is known
as "The Pilgrimage Play," and for the financial support
of which, according to The Los Angeles Times, $20,000
of the county taxes were appropriated annually for
three years. This appropriation a correspondent of
the Times condemns in unmistakable terms as being
for one unconstitutional, since it amounts to a using
of Government money for religious propaganda. What
a howl non-Catholics would be raising if Mr. McGroar-
ty had applied and obtained public funds to support his
Play, which, let us hope, will ever find the favor and
approval of the thousands who witness it every year
and who are always so deeply touched by the story it
tells with such dramatic force, of the old Franciscan
missions of California.

The Colored Claim

IN a letter to Rev. Peter Harrington, S. M. A., the
Apostolic Delegate writes: "The Irish Province of
the Society for African Missions has begun an excel-
lent work by undertaking to send missionaries to
this country. The colored population of the United
States offers a vast field for missionary activity. It is
very numerous and yet so few of its numbers have the
faith of the true church of Christ preached to them."

These Fathers, filled with a zealous missionary
spirit, have opened a house at East St. Louis, 111. in
the diocese of Belleville.

To-day there are about 12,000,000 Negroes living
within the United States. The very small number of
Catholics of this great mass is really a reproach to
our missionary activity. We are confident that the
number who can be converted to the true faith, and
who will make fervent and staunch Catholics is very
great. But to gain this great number for Christ both
missionaries and funds are needed. To supply both of
these is the aim of the Fathers of the Society of Afri-
can Missions. To our mind they have made a very
appropriate choice in placing their headquarters at
East St. Louis, which gives them the opportunity of
reaching the vast number of colored people who have
left the South for the larger industrial centers of the
Middle West and the North. If the Negroes of the
rural districts of the South need the Catholic Church
with its channels of grace for their moral uplift and
regeneration, those of our larger cities need her a' 1

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the more. Once the Negro is converted, he becomes
an enthusiastic believer and follower of Christ.

The Colored Claim is the name of the little magazine,
which these Fathers use to make known their worthy
cause. As yet it is small, but it gives promise of a
great future. The place of publication is St. Auguc-
tine's Catholic Colored Mission, 1400 E. Broadway,
East St. Louis, 111., and the price is $1.00 a year. The
HERALD bids this magazine a hearty welcome and
God's blessing and protection. May it flourish and
prosper. May it succeed in its aim and purpose, to
claim the colored people of this country for the Church,
and through the Church for eternal salvation.

The International Eucharistic Congress
at Rome

A RUMOR to the effect that the Congress has been
postponed indefinitely is false. It will take place
as originally announced from May 24 to May 29, 1922.

The program will be as follows:

Wednesday, May 24, 1922 — 4 P. M. General opening
meeting in the Court of St. Damascus or of the Pigna.
The Holy Father will preside. His Eminence, Cardinal
Vincent Vannutelli, honorary president and protector
of the Permanent Committee, will deliver the address
to the Holy Father who will answer by an address
which will fix the guiding thoughts for this splendid
demonstration in honor of the Holy Eucharist.

Thursday, May 25, 1922— Ascension Day— 9 A. M.
Solemn Pontifical Mass at St. Peter's. 4 P. M., second
general meeting at St. Peter's or in the Vatican. Ad-
dresses by Mgr. Heylen, Bishop of Namur, Belgium,
and President of the Permanent Committee, and by
His Eminence, Cardinal Basil Pompili, Vicar to His
Holiness. Solemn Benediction.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, May 26, 27,
28, 29, at 7:30 A. M.

Mass of Communion in the church for each nation
respectively and a short instruction. (The American
Church will be that of Santa Susanna, in charge of the
Paulist Fathers. The name of the orators will be an-
nounced later.)

10 A. M., Pontifical services in one of the Roman
Basilicas. 4:00 P. M., General Assembly at St. Peter's
and Solemn Benediction. On Monday, May 29, at 4:00
P. M. Solemn Procession of the Blessed Sacrament
carried by the Holy Father from the Sistine Chapel to
the Vatican Basilica, and closing of the Congress.

A movement of prayer has been started in the United
States to obtain from God that this solemn procession
of the Blessed Sacrament may take place publicly
throughout the streets of Rome and that the Holy
Father, no longer a prisoner in the Vatican, may carry
the Blessed Sacrament on the Sedia Regia. American
Catholics are asked to offer up for this intention the
Masses they hear, the Communions they make and the
moments they spend in the presence of the Blessed
Sacrament, and to send in a report to the Eucharistic

Peace Crusade, 185 East 76th Street, New York Citjj
by May 1st.

At the general assemblies there will be three ad
dresses — one in Italian and one in French every dayj
and the third in German, English and Spanish on eacl
of the three respective days. Addresses of greatej
importance will be summed up very briefly in Italian!
the official language of the Congress. There will bi
short greetings in other tongues also.

The general theme to be developed at the Congresi
is that asked for by the late Pope Benedict XV, namely]
"The Peaceful Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Chris
through the Eucharist." Text: "The peaceful Kind
is magnified; the whole world longs to see His face, 1 !
(1st Ant. of 1st Vespers of Christmas.)

In an audience with Benedict XV on December El
1921, Mgr. Heylen obtained the Holy Father's approva
for the following prayer for the success of the Con
gress. This prayer differs slightly from the one in
dulgenced by our American prelates:

"O Jesus, who dost give Thyself to be the food o(
our souls, deign to crown with full success the comini
International Eucharistic Congress. Be Thou the in]
spiration of its labors, of its resolutions, of its wishes
Accept with approval the solemn homages it will reru
der Thee. Inflame the hearts of priests and peopk
of parents and children in order that frequent and
daily Communion and early First Communion mai
hold a place of honor in all the countries of the world
and that the social reign of the Sacred Heart may b<
acknowledged everywhere.

"Sacred Heart of Jesus, bless the Congress !
"Saint Pascal Baylon, pray for us!"

Apparently the Pope did not attach any indulgencei
to this prayer. He did, however, grant the followini
precious indulgences:

1. The faithful all over the world may gain a Plen,
ary Indulgence under the usual conditions, while am
International Eucharistic Congress is going on, ty
uniting themselves in spirit to those present at th<
Congress.

2. The same Plenary Indulgence to all those wh<
after Confession and Communion, visit a church an<
pray for the intentions of the Holy Father, in anj
place where National, Diocesan or Parish Congresse:
are being held in union with the International Euchar
istic Congress.

3. An Indulgence of 7 years and 7 quarantines t<
those who, during one of these Congresses, spend somi
time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament exposed

"The Third Order of Saint Francis, by its very rule
stands for the spirit and practice of prayer, the fre
quent reception of the Sacraments of Penance an<
Holy Eucharist, Christian speech, the Catholic press
Catholic charity, Christian modesty in attire an<
amusement, the Christian home, Catholic education
an intensively Catholic life. Its motto is: 'Do goo<
yourself and teach others to do so or by word and exam
pie.' "— Fr. Bede, O. M. C, in The Third Order Forum

CHATS WITH TERTIARIES

FREQUENTLY, I receive re-
quests from readers of this
department for more exten-
jsive information regarding the
'Third Order of St. Francis as to
jwhere and how they can become
members. Some seem to think that
because they live one or two hun-
dred miles from the nearest Fran-
ciscan church, there is no possibil-
ity of their joining. Happily, they
are mistaken, for distance from a
Franciscan church need not keep
any one out of the Order. To
lighten my personal correspondence
on this subject, I am going to give
all of you the benefit of this infor-
mation. If you are determined to
become a member of the Third Or-
der of St. Francis, dear friend,
kindly ask your Reverend Pastor or
your Father Confessor whether he
has the faculty to invest you with
the Third Order cord and scapular.
If he has (members of the Priests'
Eucharistic League have the fac-
ulty), it will be a simple matter for
you to secure a cord and scapular,
Jsither from any Church Goods
House or from the office of FRAN-
CISCAN HERALD. As the price of
sach is usually only ten cents, this
item of expense will bar no one from
membership, If your Reverend
Pastor or Father Confessor has not
he faculty but is willing to admit
/ou if he had, he can secure it with-
)ut difficulty by sending a request to
;his effect to the nearest Franciscan
Father Provincial. By a Franciscan
Father Provincial is meant the Rev.
Superior of the Franciscans, Con-
/entuals, or Capuchins. These three
jreat families of St. Francis are
)ften popularly styled the Brown,
:he Black, and the Bearded Fran-
ciscans. Moreover, the provincial

By Fr. Giles, O. F. M.

superior of the Third Order Regular
also can impart this faculty. Hence
you see, my friends, that wherever
you live, whether you are rich or
poor, man or woman, married or
single, it is possible for you to be-
come a member of the Third Order.
If there is no regular conference

The Patrons of the Third Order

of Tertiaries in your city, you may
remain what is called an isolated
member; this means, that although
you are obliged to observe the Rule
of the Third Order, you are not re-
quired to attend the monthly meet-
ings or fulfil the other regulations
that obtain only where a fraternity
is established. However, if such
isolated members are truly appre-
151

ciative of the great spiritual benefits
they enjoy as Tertiary children of
St. Francis, they will not be content
to remain isolated any length of
time. They will be fired with an
irrepressible zeal for the spread of
the Order and will endeavor to win
others for it. Thus, I have in mind
a good Tertiary woman who suc-
ceeded within some fifteen months
in gaining more than thirty women
and men for the Order, one of her
most fervent recruits being her own
husband. Now she is no longer an
isolated Tertiary and is able to at-
tend the monthly meetings of "her
conference," as she may truthfully
call it in more ways than one. Then,
too, I am just at present correspond-
ing with a man who is a compara-
tive stranger in the city where he
now lives, but who is nevertheless
making strenuous efforts to interest
his acquaintances in the Third Or-
der. He is distributing quite liber-
ally little pamphlets bearing on it,
explaining its nature, obligations,
and privileges. His first recruit is
a dear old lady, a daily communi-
cant; but rest assured, she will not
be his last, by any means. He has
only recently discovered that a cer-
tain priest in the city has the fac-
ulty to receive members and the
two are now working faithfully
hand in hand. That they will have
considerable uphill work, goes
without saying. But did you ever
see anything really worth while
that did not cost repeated efforts
and much perseverance to achieve?
As Rome was not built in one day,
as our teachers used to tell us when
we attended school for the first time
and wanted to begin to read our
primer immediately; so the Third
Order will not be spread throughout

152 F R A XCISCAX II E R A L D April. 1022

the land without earnest and united known this all along because it was refrain lest others think they are
endeavors. taught us at school; but how about posing as saints. Dear me, how

Let this suffice for the present on our loyalty to the Holy Father, to afraid men are of appearing to be!
this subject. As every city and our diocesan bishop, to our parish modern Pharisees. Pope Pius XJ
town has its own particular diffi- priest, to the director of our Third caused greater consternation by de-j
culties to contend with, I wish to Order fraternity? It would be so manding that children should be ad- '
hear from a few more of my friends easy to be obedient and loyal to mitted to the Holy Table as soon 1
telling me how they are endeavoring Christ Himself or to the Apostles, as they are able to distinguish the!
to spread the Third Order, before but we find that their successors in Bread of Angels from common food,;
speaking on the matter again in the Church are often so extremely which is usually about the age of!
these columns. I welcome letters human and it is difficult for us to seven. Many Catholics, and among!
from you and if time permits, 1 al- look at them only through the eyes them not a few Tertiaries, hesitatedj
ways send my correspondents a of Faith. to obey in this matter on the plea]

personal answer. Therefore, you Let us examine ourselves on one that children of this age could notj
need not be afraid to write. or the other point regarding our grasp the meaning of it all. This

As I still have some space at my loyalty to Holy Church. Did we not is certainly queer indeed; for we]
disposal I am going to use it for make disparaging remarks about our daily see our newspapers enhvenedi
a little chat on a matter that is of late Holy Father Benedict XV dur- by the precocious sayings of our.
vital interest to every Tertiary and ing the World War, when his efforts darlings, even before they reach the-,
friend of St. Francis. One of the to bring about peace among the na- age of seven; and it is to be mar-
qualities demanded bv the Third Or- tions did not meet with our own per- veled at that these same oye, right -
der of its members is, that they be sonal views on the subject? I think scions of our families are too stupid,
"of tried obedience to the Roman that even many a son and daughter and altogether too backward to!
Church and to the Apostolic See." of St. Francis will recall a hard grasp heavenly truths at so tender i
If there was one characteristic that word or at least an unkind thought an age.

shone with especial splendor in the about this or that priest, this or On the occasion of the Seventh,
life of our Seraphic Father, St. that bishop, during those terrible Centenary of the founding of the
Francis it was his touching devo- days when men's hearts and souls Third Order, Pope Benedict XV !
tion to Holy Mother Church and were aroused as seldom before. All urged the Tertiaries to be models to:
to her visible head, the Pope. Catholics are obliged to be obedient their fellow Catholics in matters of j
He even went so far as to bind to Holy Church, to her laws and d~ess and of worldly pleasures..)
himself bv a solemn vow al- regulations; but St. Francis expects Our Tertiaries listened to this let-
ways to remain loyal to her, and that his children will not only ful- ter with due reverence, but unfor-j
this same loyalty he demands from til her strict commands, but will tunately very many of them were
all his children, be they of his First, even endeavor to anticipate her either overpowered by sleep or were
Second or Third Order. Nor need wishes in matters of an indifferent distracted by some untoward occur-j
this surprise us. The highest spir- nature. Catholics are told not to be rence when the passage just re-j
itual authoritv given by God to on intimate terms with their sepa- ferred to was reading. At least, this!
man is vested in Holy Church and rated brethren, although they are is the most charitable explanation
the Bishop of Rome, Christ's vice- commanded to observe always and that I can give for their utter fail-|
gerent on earth. "He that heareth everywhere a friendly attitude lire to put the Holy Father's ex-
vou heareth me," said Our Lord to toward them. How many Tertia- hortation into practice. I believe
his 'Apostles, and in them to His ries strive by this friendliness to that our Tertiaries in general are
Church. We often hear people say, bring back these strayed sheep to to be commended for their spirit
"Oh, how I wish I could have sat the Fold of the Good Shepherd? of charity. However, there is one
on the mountain or on the seashore This would be a splendid example occasion in the year where they can
while Our Lord was preaching to of loyalty to Him and to Holy show their loyalty to the Holy
the multitudes that flocked to hear Church. Some few years ago, our Father in a special manner. This
Him!" This is but one of the count- Holy Father Pope Pius X urged the is when the so-called Peter's Pence
less idle wishes that we hear ex- faithful to the frequent reception of collection is taken up. Many Catho-
pressed every day and which are the Sacraments; yes, he even begged lies drop in their penny — yes, liter-
directly opposed to the rulings of them to receive Holy Communion ally in many cases! — into the basket
Divine Providence in our regard, daily, if possible. Many Catholics as it goes the rounds, figuring out
Did not St. Paul himself answer the rose up in arms against him, saying the while in their busy mind that
Christians of his day who thus "ex- that this had never been heard of if every one of the three hundred
pressed themselves, by saying, before. Here again, was a splendid million Catholics throughout the
"Know you not that Christ speaks in opportunity for Tertiaries to prove world would contribute a like
me?" Thus the pope, the bishops, their loyalty to Holy Church; but amount, the Pope could be presented
yes, every priest, can repeat these how many excuse themselves from with a handsome purse, indeed!
words with St. Paul, for they are, daily Communion by saying that Dear, dear! this may be good math-
one and all, mouthpieces of Christ they are wholly unworthy of it, or, ematics, but it is very poor loyalty,
Jesus Himself. Of course, we have if they think they are worthy, they and it reminds me of the incident

April, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

153

that happened in one of tN° north-
ern States not so very long ago,
when the pastor of a poor church
was going about on his annual col-
lection tour of the parish. "You
here again, Father? Why, didn't I
give you a quarter last year!"
Here, friends, is a very good occa-
sion for all Tertiaries to give their
fellow Catholics the best example
of loyalty to the Church. We are
not obliged under pain of sin to
contribute to the Peter's Pence, but
if we do so nevertheless and do so
generously, what an example will
this not be for our fellow Catholics
and what a reward will we not store
up for ourselves in heaven for this
splendid testimony of our loyalty to
the Pope!

These are but a few of the many
instances that may be cited where
we can show that we are true chil-
dren of our Seraphic Father St.
Francis. Whatever Holy Church
tells us, let us not first weigh
whether it is a strict command or a
counsel or only a wish that she ex-
presses. Let it suffice for us Ter-
tiaries to know that the Church has
spoken. That is loyalty. If we act
otherwise, we are doing no more
than every other Catholic is bound
to do in conscience and under sin.
If I have appeared to preach to
you, my friends, instead of chatting,
I feel that this is due to the fact
that I must converse through the
dry medium of paper instead of hav-
ing you before me face to face.
However, be the foregoing a sermon
or a chat, you and I and all of us
are going to be more loyal to Holy
Church in the future than we have
been in the past.

THE OFFICE OF MOTHER

By Agnes Modesta

WE were sitting around my vacant for want of anyone to hold
winking open fire the other them. There is so much to holding
day, talking about women who hold the office, so many duties that can
public office. One of my guests not or should not be entrusted to
wondered whether there was any deputies; and the effects of its in-
probability of a woman holding the cumbency spreads over the whole
highest office in the land, in the fabric of the ages. For who has
near future. One of the company, not lived a better or a worse man
a quiet but attractive woman who or woman because of the influence
has but recently moved into our or non-influence of a mother's love
neighborhood, looked up smiling and and care? And so it behooves us,
made answer to this speculation. as Catholic women, to give much

"She does hold it already."

"Why — " A polite but puzzled
smile went around the circle.

"Please tell us about it?" I en-
tered the breach. "What office?"

thought to the dignity and poten-
tialities of the "office of mother,"
since the great majority of us have
been destined to fill it.

The wee girl-child, who showers
her protective tenderness on a thing

The newcomer laughed outright, a of sawdust and pa inted bisque, or
ringing infectious laugh that set us on a thing of rubber or of rag> be-
all a-smile even while we wondered. cause it bears the sem blance of a

"Why, matrimony, you know— it baby, is showing forth the first stir-
really means the office of mother; r i ngs f mother love. This grows
and where can you find a greater?" w jth her through childhood and

"Oh!" little girlhood, and through the bud

We sat back for a second with the and into the flower of womanhood,
sulky feeling of having been tripped Then, perhaps, in the dispensation
over our own feet. Then rose such of an all-wise Providence, she is
a buzz of comment and a swapping led to see that her calling is to join
of yarns relating to the "office of forces with one of the other sex in
mother" as was never before heard the bonds of matrimony — which
in my sedate living room. It was means for her, primarily, the work
all very confusing; and even now I or office of mother,
can't recall a single definite thing I say only that she may do this,
that any of them said. But I do For there are other callings which
believe that each one kept something the young woman may follow, some
to ponder in her heart — I know I so sublime that the physical self
did. enters not at all, and some which

Yes, when we come to think of it, are useful and necessary and exact-
the office of mother at least comes ing enough to render matrimony un-
close to being the biggest in the thinkable. But just now, we wish
land, because forsooth, without it to focus our attention upon the
all other offices would be forever young woman for whom marriage

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has been indicated as a call from
God.

To such a young woman, whom we
shall suppose to be a Christian and
a Catholic, marriage is the sacra-
mental union of a man and a
woman; and its purpose is first of
all, the welfare of the children
that may result from it. It is a
holy and a dignified thing, sponsored
by the Almighty — therefore good.
So this young woman, in the course
of time, if God so decrees, becomes
the mother of children. And it is
with the coming of the first of these
that the greatest of life's tasks is
opened out before her — that of train-
ing an immortal soul for the jour-
ney whose end is God.

Then it is that so many modern
mothers, especially those (outside
the Church, ruin and mar. They do
not study the work that has fallen
to their lot. They care perhaps for
the body and to some extent for the
minds of their children; but the
greater things, the things of the
spirit, they leave practically un-
tended. Certainly, it is a fearful
outlook for the men and women of
to-morrow, that the children of to-
day, either through carelessness or
ignorance or sinister intent, are
rearing as mere animals.

The Catholic mother is in a dif-
ferent position from the mother who
is stumbling blindly outside the
Fold. The Catholic mother has
every help in her task: the wisdom
of the Church, the hard-and-fast
nature of her marriage tie, and
those channels of grace, the Sacra-
ments. She has every opportunity
to become the ideal mother. But
she must remember that with the
opportunity comes the clean-cut and
non -transferable responsibility.
Hers is the easy way — hers is the
hard way.

She knows that the education of
her child must be not only physical
and intellectual, but also moral and
religious. For the child is first of
all a child of God, and the mother
is appointed to lead it through Time
up to the threshold of Eternity. So
she will begin the educating process
at the cradle of the sleeping little
one. She will guide it with loving
firmness when to the casual on-
looker it would seem that the small
bundle of life could not possibly

FRANCISCAN 11 E R A LD

know anything. For — let me di-
gress long enough to urge upon the
earnest attention of mothers that
Baby knows a great deal more than
they give him credit for. Though
he is, in fact, a little animal with
only potentialities for reason, he is
none the less capable of receiving

April. 192:

THE OLD VIOLIN

The bow sweeps over the silken
| strings;

And soft and low the music
brings,
| From out the dim and shadowy
I past,

Visions and dreams too sweet to
last.

The ladies fair in quilted
dress,

Conscious of their bright
loveliness,

Smile pleasantly and cour-
tesy low

As through the minuet
| they go.

And phantom knights of by-
gone days
Step through the dance as the
violin plays;
| With young love dwelling in

gentle guise
I Within the depths of dark brown
eyes.

Softly it throbs, the violin.
So worn and old, so dark

and dim.
The listening soul is deeply

thrilled
And the empty heart with

gladness filled.

How the visions hover in skies

of blue
As if to the music there they

grew I

Nancy Buckley

impressions, from the first weeks of
his earthly existence, that will leave
indelible marks upon the little soul,
marks which will act for good or
evil as that soul assumes its func-
tions.

To return. So the baby's days go
on, and he is given the foundation
of a strong and healthy physical
life; for it is this branch of his
being that receives chief attention
during his first years. But sudden-
ly, lo and behold, before the aston-
ished parents can realize it, their
little helpless bit of roseleaf soft-
ness has become a self-starting,

self-moving machine, which needs
constant and tireless surveillance.)
Then it is that the office of motheri)
is beset by difficulties, and then itfl
is that the grace of God must befl
hers for the proper fulfilling of herj
mission. From this time on shej
can either make or mar, build oril
destroy, swing for or against, the]
destinies of the little one that is]
hers to prepare for God.

Modern Catholic mothers, yours!
is the greatest task in the world.!
Shall it be said that any one hasj
shirked or side-stepped her duty tol
God and man in this matter? You.j
who have brought your children into]
the world must make every effort]
to stay close to them in the years]
when they need you. You it is who]
must create that atmosphere of theirl
home life which will be to them thei
most potent memory of youth when
the days of their youth will have
fled. You it is who must answer!
their difficulties, mental and moral,
and who must encourage them to
"tell mother about it" in all their
childish problems. Your children!
have the right to expect from you'
the necessary guidance in the affairs
of life. Do not say, "I do not know]
what I ought to tell my children, andj
what I ought to leave unsaid." For]
it is exactly here that the help, that]
is ours to command in the tribunal
of Penance, will come in. Our con-]
fessor is a trained specialist in all
the problems of human action.

The best type of the Catholic-
woman to-day will so bring up her
children that they in turn will be-j
come the best type of Catholic men
and women of to-morrow, men andl
women whose faces are ever turned i
upward to the light ; who know theirl
faith and therefore love it; and who
regard things physical only as me-
diums through which they mayi
reach the spiritual; and who will
come at last to their final end which
is God.

Indeed, it is a sublime thing, this
"office of mother," and rich in re-
ward on earth as well as in Heaven.
For when you ask a man or a woman
who has scaled the heights in the
journey of life, what has been the
greatest influence for good along
the way, the answer will come, al-
most invariably, straight as a shot,
"My mother."

April, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

155

THIRD ORDER CALENDAR

2. Bl. Leopold of Gaichis, Con-
fessor of the I Order.

3. BB. Gandulph and John of
Pinna, Confessors of the I Order.

4. St. Benedict the Moor, Confes-
sor of the I Order. (Plen. Ind.)

6. Bl. Mary Crescentia, Virgin of
the III Order.

7. Bl. William, Confessor of the
III Order.

7. Seven Sorrows of B. V. M.

8. Bl. Julian, Confessor of the I
Order.

9. Bl. Thomas of Tolentino, Mar-
! tyr of the I Order.

10. Bl. Mark, Confessor of the
! I Order.

12. Bl. Angelo, Conf., I Order.
16. Easter Sunday. (Gen. Absol.
— Renewal of Profession. Plen Ind.)

18. Bl. Andrew, Conf., I Order.

19. Bl. Conrad, Confessor of the
I Order.

22. Bl. Francis, Confessor of the
I Order.

23. Bl. Giles of Assisi, Confessor
of the I Order. (Plen. Ind.)

24. St. Fidelis, Martyr of the I
Order Cap. (Plen, Ind.)

27. Bl. James, Confessor of the
I Order.

28. Bl. Luchesio, Confessor of
the III Order. (Plen. Ind.)

30. BB. Benedict and Joseph
Benedict, Confessors of the I and
III Orders. (Plen. Ind.)

Besides the days indicated above,
Tertiaries can gain a Plenary In-
dulgence:

2. On the first Saturday of every
month. Conditions: Confession,
Communion, some prayers for the
intention of the Pope, and besides
some prayers in honor of the Im-
maculate Conception of the B. V. M.

General Absolution, also called
Indulgenced Blessing, can be re-
ceived by Tertiaries on April 9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. This Abso-
lution may be imparted to Tertiaries
also in the confessional on the day
preceding these feasts or on the
feasts themselves, or on any day
during the week following.

EASTER

Winds of dawn with incensi

freighted,
Whispering soft through Cedron'

vale;
Over grim heights of Calvary loom

ing,
Morning burns a crimson trail
Onward reaching to a garden
Steeped in silent, odorous gloom,
Clustral lilies stately bending
Sentinel a yawning tomb.

Sudden throb of hurried footfall
Down the flower bordered way,
Then a vision fair advancing
Through the roseal glow of day;
Like to stars, the blown mis

veiling.
So her sweet eyes' tearful gaze,
While her hair in wondrous glory
Sweeps, a glinting, golden haze.

Kneeling bowed in grief's abandon,

On the stone her tear-laved brow,

Through heart-sobs of anguished

yearning n

Steals a voice: "Why weepest thou?"
Eyes with worlds of sorrow

freighted
Lift to meet the gardener's face;
"They have taken Him — my

Master,
Vain 1 seek His resting place."

Perfume swathes the listening gar-
den,
Sharon's roses twine the wall;
Then like crooning ocean's mur-
mur.

Soft as wind blown petals fall,

"Mary!" — her Beloved speaking,

Lo! her tearful quest is o'er,

And that gladsome cry, "Rabonni!"

Rings till time shall be no more.

—Catherine M. Hayes

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FRANCISCAN POPULAR MISSIONARY ACTIVITIES

By Fr. Honoratus Bonzelet, O. F. M., Missionary

HAVING founded his illustri-
ous Order, St. Francis of
Assisi, was very much per-
plexed by the doubt whether he and
his brethren should devote them-
selves exclusively to the contempla-
tive life or also to the preaching of
the word of God for the salvation of
souls. Hence he sent two of his
companions, Brothers Philip and
Masseus, to Bro. Sylvester, the priest
who was then on the mountain near
Assisi, absorbed in prayer and medi-
tation, begging him to consult the
Lord on the subject of his doubt.
He made a similar application to
Clare, recommending her to put the
same question to her sisters, and
particularly to the one that should
appear to her the most pure and
most single-minded. The venerable
priest and the consecrated virgin
were one in their answer, pronounc-
ing it the will of God that Francis
and his brethren should go forth to
preach the word of God. Moved by
the Spirit of God and inflamed by
the fire of charity, Francis ex-
claimed: "Let us then go in the
name of the Lord."

The subsequent history of the
life of St. Francis shows how zeal-
ous he was in fulfilling this call of
heaven. Styling himself "the Her-
ald of a Great King," Francis tra-
versed Italy, preaching the word of
God in hamlet and town, calling
men to repentance. In order to
guide his brethren in the all impor-
tant office of preaching, he lays
down special regulations for them
in the Holy Rule. In the ninth
Chapter of this God-inspired docu-
ment he says: "I warn and exhort
the brethren that in the preaching
they do, their words be well con-
sidered and simple, for the benefit
and edification of the people, an-

nouncing to them vices and virtues,
punishment and glory with brevity
of speech, because the Lord made
His word short upon earth." These
words, because of the sublime wis-
dom they contain, have found their
way into the enactments of the
Council of Trent on preaching.
Preaching the word of God has,
therefore, always been considered
the vocational occupation of the
Friars Minor. And in fact, not to
minimize the grand achievements of
the Friars Minor in the line of
learning, social activity, foreign
missions, and so on, it is no exag-
geration to say that of the pages of
Franciscan history few are brighter
than those which treat of their
achievements as popular or home
missionaries. Speaking of the Friars
of the middle ages, the Protestant
historian, Thode says: "Preaching
was the real vocation of the Fran-
ciscans . . . Through Francis of
Assisi the Church had become con-
scious of her and her children's
needs, and the mendicants she sent
forth were the most popular pro-
claimed of her doctrines. Such
preaching again proved, as of old,
during the Apostolic times that the
Gospel is intended for the poor and
that it is calculated to bring inex-
haustible blessings to mankind, if
only it be preached in its original
simplicity and purity. Every moral
exhortation is a sermon on love, and
if ever there have been such ser-
mons on love, the sermons of the
Franciscans certainly were such.
The people desired preachers that
spoke their language, that shared
with them their joys and their sor-
rows, that knew how to temper aus-
terity with gentleness, — the Fran-
ciscans proved themselves equal to
these expectations, and therein lies
156

the secret of their unparalleled sue
cess."

How true this glowing Tribute oj
Thode is, will become clear in the
following pages. It stands to reaso
that it is impossible within thej
limits of this rapid sketch to prej
sent an exhaustive account of th(|
Franciscan home missionary activi-,
ties; suffice it, as in passing, to cullj
from the annals of the various cen-j
turies, the names of the most disH
tinguished preachers of the Order.

At the very cradle of the Order
in the thirteenth century, we meel
with one of the most illustrious;
preachers that has ever graced this
institution, the embodiment of Fran
ciscan eloquence, St. Antony oi
Padua. We are told of this humble
son of St. Francis. "While Anthonj
lived retired at Montepaolo it hap
pened, one day, that a number oi
Franciscans and Dominicans were
sent together to Forli for ordina-
tion. Anthony also was present,
but simply as a companion of the
Provincial. When the time for or
dination had arrived, it was found
that no one had been appointed tc
preach. The superior turned first
to the Dominicans, and asked that
one of their number should addres
a few words to the assembled
brethren; but everyone declined
saying he was not prepared. In
their emergency they then chose
Antony, whom they thought only
able to read the Missal and Bre
viary, and commanded him to speak
whatever the spirit of God might
put in his mouth. Antony, com
pelled by obedience, spoke at first 1
slowly and timidly, but soon en-
kindled with fervor, he began to ex-
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Scripture with such profound erudi-
tion and sublime doctrine that all
were struck with astonishment."
With that moment began Antony's
public career. For some time, at
the direction of St. Francis himself,
he taught theology. It was as an
Drator, however, rather than as pro-
fessor, that Antony reaped his
richest harvest. He possessed in an
eminent degree all the good quali-
ties that characterize an eloquent
preacher: a loud clear voice, a win-
ning countenance, wonderful mem-
ory, and profound learning, to which
were here added from on high the
Spirit of prophesy and an extraor-
jdinary gift of miracles. With the
(seal of an apostle he undertook to
sreform the morality of his time by
bombating in an especial manner the
pices of luxury, avarice, and tyr-
anny. The fruit of his sermons
Hs, therefore, as admirable as his
Eloquence itself. No less fervent
ivas he in the extinction of heresy,
aotably that of the Cathares and the
Patarines, which infested the centre
ind north of Italy, and probably
ilso that of the Albigenses. in the
south of France.

Passing by an innumerable host
)f great and successful Franciscan
nissionaries of Italy and France,
jve wish here to take cognizance of
)ne, of whom Roger Bacon says,
hat he achieved more in his mis-
ionary activity than all the rest
l>f the Franciscan missionaries of
hat time — we mean Fr. Berthold
)f Ratisbon, the greatest popu-
ar speaker of medieval Germany.
From the middle of the thirteenth
entury, up to his death, in the year
272, Berthold, "the Beloved of God
ind men," traversed Upper Ger-
nany, Switzerland, Austria, Silesia,
Moravia, and Bohemia, preaching
)enance to the enormous crowds
hat surrounded his pulpit. On one
>ccasion, we are told, approximately
10,000 hearers surrounded his pul-
>it, which was erected in the open.
The secret of the preacher's success
ay partly in the saintliness of his
ife, partly in his power to make use
)f the language of humble life. He
)ecame the great master, it may be
;aid, the classic of homely speech,
md this rank has been maintained
>y his sermons to the present day.

After a brief decadence in the
fourteenth century, the preaching
activity of the Franciscan Friars
has an unparalled ascendency to
record in the fifteenth century — the
golden era of Franciscan preaching
— culminating in the quadruple
bright constellation of Franciscan
eloquence: St. Bernardine of Siena
and his three disciples Albert of
Sarteano, St. James of the Marches,
and St. John Capistran, in turn sur-
rounded by numerous satellites of
lesser magnitude.

Born in 1380, St. Bernardine of
Siena did not manifest any extraor-

St. Bernardine of Siena

dinary gift of eloquence till 1417,
when his missionary life began in
Milan, soon after which various
cities of Italy contended for the hon-
or of hearing him, and he was often
compelled to preach in the market
places, his hearers sometimes num-
bering 30,000. Bernardine grad-
ually gained an immense influence
over the turbulent, luxurious Italian
cities. Pius II., who as a youth had
been a spell-bound hearer of Ber-
nardine, records that the saint was
listened to as to another Paul, and
Baspasiano da Bisticci, his Floren-
tine biographer, says that by his
sermons Bernardine "cleansed all

Italy from sins of every kind in
which she abounded." The peni-
tents, we are told, flocked to con-
fession "like ants," and in several
cities the reform urged by the saint
were embodied in the laws under the
name of Reformazioni di frate
Bernardino. Indeed, the success
which crowned Bernardine's labors
to promote morality and regenerate
society, can scarcely be exaggerated.
He preached with apostolic free-
dom, openly censuring the vices of
those in high places. In each city
he denounced the reigning vice so
effectively that bonfires were kin-
dled and "vanities" were cast upon
them by the carload. Usury was
one of the principal objects of the
saint's attacks, and he did much to
prepare the way for the establish-
ment of the cooperative beneficial
loan societies, known as Monti di
Pieta. But Bernardine's watch-
word, like that of St. Francis, was
"Peace." On foot he traversed the'
length and breath of Italy, and his
eloquence was exercised with great
effect towards reconciling the mu-
tual hatred of Guelphs and Ghibel-
lines. At Crema, as a result of his
preaching, the political exiles were
recalled and even reinstated in their
confiscated possessions. Every-
where Bernardine persuaded the
cities to take down the arms of their
warring factions from the church
and palace walls and to inscribe
there, instead, the initials I. H. S.
He thus gave a new impulse and a
tangible form to the devotion of the
Holy Name of Jesus, which was
ever a favorite topic with him and
which he regarded as a potent
means of rekindling popular fer-
vor. It is of great interest to state
that St. Bernardine has been chosen
the patron saint of the missionaries.

Albert of Sarteano achieved such
great renown as popular preacher
that he was simply styled: "King
of preachers." St. James of the
Marches held spell-bound immense
throngs of pious listeners, and his
zeal carried him beyond the confines
of Italy into Dalmatia, Bosnia and
Hungary. He deserves creditable
mention also because of his success-
ful efforts in warding off the danger
of the invading Turks and the per-
versions of the Fraticelli.

However, foremost among the dis-
ciples of St. Bernardine of Siena as

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popular preacher, who in logic and
power of speech excelled all his
contemporaries, the master includ-
ed, was St. John Capistran. The
fame which his irresistible elo-
quence achieved in Italy, induced
the Emperor Frederic in the year
1451 to apply to the Pope to send
John to Germany. Whithersoever
he went, he was met by the priests
and the populace, who regarded him
as the ambassador of the Pope and
the proclaimer of truth, as a great
prophet and a messenger from
heaven. Even the very inhabitants
of the mountains hastened to meet
him, eager to touch the hem of his
garment. From 20,000—30,000
daily surrounded his pulpit erected
in the open, and even though they
did not understand him, they list-
ened more attentively to him than
to the interpreter who assisted him.
Thus he traversed, everywhere
preaching penance, a great portion
of Germany, Moravia, Bohemia, Po-
land and Hungary. The success of
his sermons was marvelous. After
one sermon on Death which he
preached in Leipzig, 120 young men
left the world and joined the re-
ligious life. Side by side with these
popular missions, St. John Capis-
tran also combated the heresies of
the Hussites; but the greatest re-
nown he achieved by warding off the
attacks of the Turks. The crusad-
ers who rallied about his standard,
almost the only supporters of the
heroic Hunyadi, carried banners
bearing on the one side the sign of
the Cross and on the other the im-
age of a saint of the Order. The
result is known: Belgrade was
freed on July 14, 1456, and eight
days later the decisive victory over
the Turks was won.

Ill

Even though during the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries the
struggle against the heresies of the
Reformers largely engrossed the at-
tention of the Friars, nevertheless
their most important field of ac-
tivity remained, as before, the
preaching of the word of God and
hearing of the confessions of the
faithful. The superiors of the Or-
der laid great stress on educating
suitable young men for the office of
preaching; and in order to insure
great efficiency, the General Chap-

ters laid down wise laws and regula-
tion with regard to the preaching of
the word of God. In order to give
the people, wherever there was a
Franciscan Friary, opportunity to
hear the word of God, it was de-
cided in the year 1579 that at every
larger Friary at least two suitable
priests of the community should be
appointed to fill the office of "special
preachers" and that at every smaller
Friary at least one should be ap-
pointed for that office.

So numerous are the Franciscan
preachers of this period who at-
tained great fame, that we can only
mention the most important ones.

In Belgium, Philip Bosquier
(+1636) was considered one of the
most popular missionaries. Fur-
thermore Henry Thyssen, a German
by descent, (+1644) exerted such a
charm upon his hearers, that the
greatest sinners could not resist
and were led back to God.

In France, sacred eloquence had
reached its climax in the seven-
teenth century. And even though

St. John Capistran

we find no Friar Minor among the
stars of first magnitude, neverthe-
less the Order had a number of
preachers who attained great fame
and achieved marvelous things for
the honor of God and the salvation
of souls. Maurice Hylaret preached
for many years with such great im-
pression at Orleans, that in the year
1687 the grateful city erected a
monument in his honor.

In Spain, shone in the sixteenth
century by his eloquence, side by
side with St. Peter of Alcantara,
Alphons de Castro ( + 15581, who
was considered by many the most
celebrated Spanish speaker of this
epoch.

Most fruitful in great Franciscan
preachers was Italy during that per-
iod. In the sixteenth century Fran-
cis Panigarola (+1594) outshone all
his contemporaries. In Paris and in
most of the cities of Italy, he threw
such a charm over his spell-bound
hearers that they became like wax in
his hand. In their admiration for
him, they bestowed upon him the
honorary title: "the Christian Dem-
osthenes," or, "the Italian Chrysos-
tom." Very successful as mission-
aries were, in the seventeenth cen-
tury, Paul of Sulmona and Bartho-
lomew of Saluthio.

St. Leonard of Port Maurice
(1676-1751) is undoubtedly the
most distinguished missionary of
the eighteenth century. From the I
first year after his ordination to the
priesthood, he was engaged in mis-
sionary work. However, seized
soon after with gastric hemor-
rhages, he became so ill that he was
sent to his native climate of Porto
Maurizio, where there was a Friary
of the Observants. After four
years, he was restored to health and.
he began to preach in Porto Maur-
izio. During 44 years, he was un-
interruptedly engaged in preaching
missions, never shirking hardships.
His sermons were marked by glow-
ing love and practical experience?,
bubbling over with enthusiasm, full
of unction and irresistible convic-
tion. The great orator Barberini,
himself engaged in giving missions,
was sent by Pope Clement XII to at-
tend his sermons, and he reported to
the Pope that he had never heard a

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more zealous speaker than Leonard
of Port Maurice, and that the im-
pression of his sermons was so over-
whelming, that he himself could not
repress the tears. Yielding to the
entreaties of Cosimo III de' Medici,
he went to Tuscany, where he
preached missions to the people,
and his endeavors were crowned
with marvelous success, the most
extraordinary conversions taking
place. In 1710 he founded the
Friary of Icontro, on a peak in the
mountains about four miles from
Florence, whither he and his as-
sistants could retire from time to
time after their missions, and de-
vote themselves to spiritual renewal
and fresh austerities. In 1720 he
crossed the borders of Tuscany and
held his celebrated missions in Cen-
tral and Southern Italy, enkindling
with zeal the entire population. In
Rome, Benedict XIV, an especial
friend of the saint, attended his
overpowering sermons and exacted
of him the promise that he would
die in Rome. Whithersoever the
saint went, he made abundant con-
versions, and was very often
obliged both in the cities and in the
country districts to preach in the
open, as the churches could not
contain the thousands that came to
listen to his sermons. He founded
many pious societies and confrater-
nities, and exerted himself especial-
ly to spread the devotion of the Sta-
tions of the Cross, in the propaga-
tion of which he was greatly fur-
thered with the assistance of his
brethren — the devotion of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus, the perpet-
ual adoration of the Most Blessed
Sacrament, and the devotion to the
Immaculate Conception, and one of
his most ardent desires was to see
the last-named denned as a dogma
of faith by the Holy See. From
May to November, 1744, he preached
on the Island of Corsica, which at
the time belonged to the Republic
of Genoa and which was frightfully
torn by party strife. In November,
1751, when he was preaching to the
Bolognese, Benedict XIV called him
to Rome, as already there were in-
dications of his rapidly approaching
lend. He arrived in the evening of
[November 21, 1751 at his beloved
Friary of St. Bonaventure on the
Palatine, and expired during the

St. Leonard

same night at eleven o'clock, at the
age of seventy-five.

The great missionary activities of
St. Leonard were continued in Italy
by Bl. Leopold a Gaichis. The
Seraphic Breviary (April 2) gives
the following account of his life:
"Born of pious parents in Gaichis,
a little town of the diocese of
Peruia, Leopold spent the days of
his boyhood innocently as a shep-
herd. As a youth, called by the in-
spiration of divine grace to evang-
elical perfection and the gaining of
immortal souls, he joined the Order
of Friars Minor the same year that
St. Leonard of Port Maurice took
flight into heaven. In the house of
the Lord, he daily made great
strides in perfection, progressing
from virtue to virtue, not only not
deviating from the rules of the
most rigid discipline, but also by
word and example encouraging his
companions to the strict observ-
ance of the same. Raised to the
dignity of the priesthood, he strove
to acquit himself of the office of
teaching philosophy and theology,
which had been entrusted to him,
in such a manner as to instil into

the minds of his pupils love for
both learning and piety. Being
later on entrusted with the office
of preaching, he strove to diffuse an
ardent love of both God and man.
Shirking no labors, undaunted by
threats and persecutions, the stren-
uous imitator of St. Leonard re-
called, in all the regions of Umbria,
during the space of forty five years,
innumerable faithful to penance and
the practice of Christian virtues.
which he achieved not only by
preaching the divine word, but also
by the example of his life. He
would frequently appear in public,
wearing a crown of thorns on his
brow, laden with a heavy cross,
chastising his body already emaciat-
ed by vigils and hairshirts."
Forced by the government from the
friary which he had erected on
Mount Luco, he and his compan-
ions continued to lead a religious
life in the world and to preach mis-
sions to the people of Umbria.
When finally permitted to return to
the seclusion of the friary he gave
himself over to the practice of re-
newed austerities, bewailing only
one thing, namely, that because of
the infirmities of old age, he could
no longer venture forth to preach
missions. In his zeal for immortal
souls, he continued his missionary
work in the friary church. Death
overtook him while he was engaged
preaching a mission in 1815, the
eighty-third year of his age.

With no less pride, can the nine-
teenth century point to distin-
guished Franciscan preachers,
whose fame spread far beyond the
confines of Italy. Special mention
is due here to Louis Parmentieri of
Casoria, who in addition to his great
missionary activities, exerted such
marvelous influence on the improve-
ment of social conditions of Italy
by the erection of hospitals and
schools that entire Naples and the
surrounding districts mourned his
death, which occurred in the year
1885.

Nor can we pass by unnoticed the
grand missionary activities of the
German Franciscans, who during
the second half of the nineteenth
century met with signal success in
their endeavors to strengthen tho
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It was especially in the seventies,
the stormy days of the so-called
"Kulturkampf," when Catholics
were oppressed and discriminated
against, that the Franciscan /his-
sionaries rose up to the occasion in
encouraging them to remain faith-
ful to their holy religion. The
churches were no longer large
enough to contain the crowds of
faithful that thronged around their
pulpits to hear the word of God,
and so they often had to address
the multitudes in the open air. In-
teresting anecdotes are related of
the zeal and devotion manifested by
the faithful during such missions.
On one occasion, we are told, con-
fessionals being erected in the open
to accommodate the crowds of peni-
tents eager to go to confession, four
stalwart men violently seized one
of the missionaries, confessional
and all, and carried him away from
the women that surrounded him, to
another place where the men were
gathered, saying: "We men, too,
want to have the Father for some
time."

We mention here by name only
the most distinguished missionaries
of that time who have already gone
to their reward. The most popular

of them was undoubtedly Kaspar
Heimer, a man of intrepid faith and
indomitable energy. Another dis-
tinguished missionary was Ambrose
Dreimueller, noted for his original-
ity and enthusiasm, a man of prayer
and mortification. Associated with
the two above mentioned were Bon-
aventure Westendorf, Sylvester
Winkes, Leonard Gelen, and Igna-
tius Yeiler.

In the Franciscan monastery at
Werl, Westphalia, died as late as
the year 1920 the famous missionary
Fr. Eusebius Mueller, 0. F. M. Since
his return to Germany (1880) from
the United States, where he had
labored for five years, he preached
in different parts of Germany as
many as 750 missions and 475 re-
treats. The Sacred Congregation of
the Propagation of the Faith in 1895
honored him with the title of Mis-
sionary Apostolic.

That the German Franciscans
have not abated in their missionary
activities in the twentieth century
is clear from the fact that the Fath-
ers of the Province of the Holy
Cross alone conducted 371 missions
within the years 1903-1906, as we
read in the "Jahresberichte" of said
Province.

Almost superhuman have been the
endeavors of the German Francis-
cans, since the recent collapse of
the German Empire, to save the
people from anarchy and infidelity.

Driven from their country by the
iniquitous laws of the "Kultur-
kampf," many Franciscans found
refuge on the hospitable shores of
America, to which they brought
with them the same spirit of zeal
for the salvation of souls. And even
though their missionary activities
have to some extent been over-
shadowed by the multiplicity of oc-
cupations that awaited them here,
nevertheless, the various Provinces,
recruiting American youths, have
been able to send forth good-sized
missionary bands ithe missionaries
of the Sacred Heart Province alone
preach more than fifty missions
yearly) to continue the grand work
of reform ; and may we here express
the fond hope that the day will not
be far away when they shall be able
to collect their scattered forces, and
in ever-increasing numbers devote
their energy to the realization of
the old Franciscan ideal of preach-
ing missions for the greater honor
and glory of God and the salvation
of innumerable immortal souls!

IN THE COUNTRY OF UNBELIEVABLE DISTANCES

By Fr. Bonaventure, O. F. M., Missionary in Arizona

The Broken Spring

Sunday morning!

A broken spring!

And my mission forty miles away!

Sounds like Sheridan's Ride — but
it isn't. Just sheer thoughtlessness
on my part, of course, to break a
spring seventy miles from Tucson!
And I must wait from Monday morn-
ing until late Saturday night to re-
place that spring. Why didn't I fix
the broken part before? Because,
most unfortunately, our electric
light system is miles off and coal-
oil and gasoline — do-not-mix!

I once witnessed the solemn ob-
sequies of a car which had been
filled with gasoline by the flickering
light of a kerosene lantern. The
vision still remains with me.

But again it is Sunday morning —
and the spring is broken — and I am
still forty miles from my mission —
and that explains the missionary
life. One is here, but whether one
will get there depends upon acci-
dent, or delay, or disappointment.
We plan, but the CAR has its fling,
as rudely as ever a skittish horse
did in earlier days.

A Sad Recollection!

Often, on a bright morning, Red
and Blackie would dodge past you
as you opened the corral gate. Like
two-year-olds they would invite you
to a gambol — over meadows covered
with cacti and boulders. Charming,
if one had the leisure, but decidedly
embarrassing when a congregation
awaits you. One of my saddest rec-
ollections is a certain memorable oc-
casion when a lone Government
supervisor lived among the Indians
in a town that is now called Sells.
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arranged for Mass and sermon at
his place, and I was to drive over
from the Lourdes school, some eight
miles distant. Long before dawn
the absence of sounds from the cor-
ral awakened me. I went out to in-
vestigate. Sure enough — Tom and
Billy had left. As soon as it was
light I trailed them a roundabout
distance of some three miles, finally
coming upon them a half-mile from
the mission.

I called two Indian boys, told
them to water them at a nearby
pond while I walked back to the
school to prepare the Mass kit.
After waiting some time and catch-
ing no glimpse of boys or horses,
I went back to the pond. Not a
3ign! Away I ran as fast as I could
to the school, where the children
were gathering for the morning
session.

The Hard Luck Story

It was getting late and I was
worried. Had the children seen my
horses? Yes, some one had met the
two boys leading them to the big
pond a mile away! I rushed a boy
to rush the boys to rush the horses!
Then I sat down and tried to look
pleasant.

Twenty minutes passed. Still no
sign — so in a mood that can hardly
be described I went off myself to the
big pond. The boys — well, the boys
were having a grand time. So were
the horses — and the pond was the
scene of high revelry. What could
I do but magnanimously forgive the
rascals? — but I took care to drive
the horses back myself. I reached
my destination at eleven o'clock— to
hear how "awfully disappointed"

every one was — and to realize that
no one quite believed my rather ab-
surd story. For to catch a horse
and catch a boy and lose both and
send another boy and lose him and
finally have to sally forth on your
own catching expedition — well, I
didn't blame them for not believing
me! As a hard luck story it did
sound — strained.

But the Cars Are Here

But now we have cars ! Donated
by kind benefactors, whom may
God reward ! What a glorious feel-
ing to skip past sage brush ! rattle-
snakes ! horned toads! without that
wearing, tearing, everlasting "gid-
dap! giddap! And greatest joy of
all — to know that one is doing the
work of two or even three priests in
this country of unbelievable dis-
tances.

Funny — And Otherwise

But even with these advantages,
little Henryford slips a cog, and
away we — don't go! I've lived
through many an aggravating and
many a pathetic incident. My first
experience was when, instead of
driving up with an air of efficiency
I viewed my congregation from the
seat of my car, hitched behind a
bow-legged, rickety wagon and one
sleepy, skinny nag. On another oc-
casion I staggered into the village,
long after my disappointed people
had returned to their homes, mud-
bespattered and exhausted, asking
help for the contrary vehicle which
was stuck some miles away. Nor
was it until that evening that it
entered the settlement in state.
Most horrible of all I was driving

my tin Lizzie to a Sonora mission,
which, on account of its distance,
I could visit but once in three
months, and my trusty steed stopped
fifteen miles short of its destination,
because of a broken axle. That was
before sore and sad experience
taught me to carry with me always
an extra axle, extra drive shaft, ex-
tra hubs, extra roller bearings, ex-
tra differential, extra everything!

Twentv-Four Hours Replacing an
Axle.

I waited three hours for a chance
team to pass. When darkness ap-
proached, I started back to God's
country. By midnight I had reached
the home of a friend, who used a
car. It also was on the sick list.
Again I continued my stroll under
the beautiful star-lit sky, when I
met a Presbyterian. He drove me
thirty miles further to San Solano.
At that place I found an axle,
slightly damaged, but still service-
able. Back we went to my car,
where my good friend left me to my
own devices.

The next twenty-four hours were
spent removing the rear end of the
car and replacing the axle unaided.
If you've ever tried this you know
what I went through — but I was
miles away from a piece of wood,
and working on ground covered
with inches of fine dust.

Our Readers Won't Allow It,
Father!

A bother — why, I haven't told
half the trouble a car is — but never-
theless, we like our cars in spite of
their crankiness. They may have
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WHO WINS

By Blanche Weitbrec
IV

LOOKING back, after it was all safely over, on
two hours he spent in the hospital par-
J lor during Lucas' operation, Geoffrey won-
dered how many miles he had walked. He must have
worn a path on the rug, he thought, tramping up and
down, waiting — waiting, chased by ten thousand fears
and ten thousand hopes. If all went well and Lucas
were cured, why then, perhaps .... But suppose
.... suppose something should go wrong ....
suppose .... suppose the operation were a failure;
suppose Kosaloff had made a mistake .... suppose
Lucas died, right there on the operating table ....
So Geoffrey fought with the grim specter that stalked
at his heels, tramping up and down, tramping, tramp-
ing, counting the figures in the carpet, multiplying
them, dividing, working out the plan of the pattern
— anything, to keep from going utterly mad, for those
two hours ....

Now it was over, and here was Lucas, lying in
his high narrow bed, very still and colorless, con-
sciousness as yet mercifully standing off from him.

He had gone to the ordeal laughing, with flushed
cheeks and eyes that peered out, reckless and watch-
ful, from behind a barrier of steely defiance.

"You aren't a bit scared, are you?" said his little
nurse, as the orderlies brought in the wheel stretcher.
"You might be getting married, for all you care,
Sefior Rezzo."

"Scared?" echoed Lucas, flashing a look at Geof-
frey, who stood miserably at the foot of his bed. "You
mistake, Pitti Sing; I'm scared to a messy jelly. But,
you know,

" 'When a man's afraid, a beautiful maid
Is a cheering sight to see — ' "

He sang the strophe with great expression, look-
ing expectantly at the girl, who instantly picked up
the measure.

" 'And oh, I'm glad his moments sad
Were cheered by the sight of me.' " ,
warbled sweet Pitti Sing, bestowing all the dimples
on him at once.

When the orderlies lifted him to the stretcher and
the pain made him wince, he covered it with a grimace
that made the boys giggle; and he was wheeled
down the hall still flirting outrageously with the
nurse, who trotted beside him, holding his hand.

Now he lay motionless and death-like, while thej
minutes passed.

"Oughtn't he to come out of it, pretty soon?" whia
pered Geoffrey to the floor Sister, who had obviousljjj
stepped in to see that "Pitti Sing" was not "carry-J
ing on" with Sefior Rezzo's friend. If Geoffrey haril
been less troubled and preoccupied he might havtl
derived some amusement from the funereal solemnity]
with which Pitti Sing met the Sister's inquiring!
gaze, every dimple in cold storage. The Sister benlj
over Lucas, feeling his pulse and laying a white handl
against his cheek.

"He's quite all right," she assured Gooffrey. "Are i
you to give morphia, Miss Meredith?"

"Dr. Kosaloff's instructions are to give morphia
the moment he shows consciousness," responded;
Pitti Sing, whose dimples, Geoffrey decided, did not]
prevent her from feeling responsibility.

"Dr. Kosaloff doesn't believe in letting a patient
struggle out of anaesthesia," explained the Sister.
"He gives morphia usually at once. So you see, by
the time the patient comes out of the morphia, the
effects of the anaesthetic and the first raw pain of
the operation have worn off, and he wakes quietly."

"Will he suffer very much at first, do you think,
Sister?" Geoffrey searched the serene eyes under
the white coif, desperately craving a word of comfort,

"I don't know what has been done," she evaded.
"Bone operations are usually rather bad. You were
in the operating room, were you not, Miss Meredith?
Was there any chiseling?"

"Diseased bone at the joint," said the nurse, in heat

most professional tone. Geoffrey turned sick.

Chiseling! And this had happened to Lucas — til

Lucas!

The first few weeks of the patient's convalescence
were a nightmare to Geoffrey. When the gallant battle
against pain and weariness and weakness became
too much for him to look at any longer, he would go
to the chapel and sit there till he felt he could face it
again ; he would sit dumbly, without prayer, watching
the tabernacle. Only once, when Lucas had broken
down, after two sleepless nights, and begged for mor-
phia, Geoffrey stumbled blindly up to the steps of
the altar and spoke his heart out.

"You've got to cure him, after this — you must,"

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he cried. "He'll come back to you. I know he'd come
back, if you wouldn't be so hard on him . . . ." Then
ihe felt frightened and went away quickly. It was as
if he had given bond for Lucas.

' "How much longer will he be tied up like this?"
Ihe demanded of Kosaloff one morning after the doctor
lhad paid his daily visit. "Are you going to keep that
infernal machine on him forever?" The metal brace,
the cruel weight on Lucas' ankle, and the springless
bed without a pillow, all of which pleasing arrange-
ments had arrived shortly after the operation, were
becoming unbearable to Geoffrey. He felt each day
that he could not endure to see Lucas so tormented
for another day.

"You make more fuss about it than he does," re-
marked Kosaloff. "He hasn't howled a bit, except
last week, when he was played out from lack of sleep.
A man's entitled to one howl, n'est-ce pas?"
1 "You haven't answered me," said Geoffrey, irri-
tably.

"I can't, my dear fellow. I don't know."

"Well, how is he getting on?"
i "Excellently. But there is a long road to travel.
You are very impatient."
i "Doctor, is it a cure?"

] "I have told you that it is too soon for me to say.
I hope so."

"And .... if it isn't?"
j Kosaloff 's shoulders made reply. "I have done my
best," supplemented his lips. "I am not God. I think
I have told you that, too."

The winter had dragged through and spring had
come, before Lucas put foot to the floor. The tortur-
jing weight, gradually lessened, had been discarded
jat last, the brace removed, and "the uncompromising
'old party," as Lucas had dubbed the hard bed, re-
placed by springs. The arrival of pillows was a
(thrilling event; and when Kosaloff announced that
the patient was to be put in a chair each day for a
brief period, Geoffrey celebrated with an elaborate
dinner imported with no lack of trouble and expense
from a down town restaurant. But the great morn-
ing of the "Premier Pas" was made memorable in
'quite another fashion.

Geoffrey played audience, hanging breathlessly on
every movement, as Kosaloff, assisted by Pitti Sing,
got Lucas actually and squarely on his feet for the
first time — supported, it is true, but nevertheless
standing.

"Feels darn funny," said Lucas, with a little catch
in his voice. "How far off is that floor? Don't let
go of me!"

"I won't. Any pain?"

"Feels funny down there somewhere. Think my
feet are asleep. Rip van Winkle had nothing on me.
'Hello, Geoffrey! Are you still alive, after all these
years?"

' "Any pain?" repeated Kosaloff, watching the dark
Iface keenly. "Take a step. Move forward."

"Oh— I can't! I'll fall! Don't let go of me!"
!He clung to Kosaloff.

"I'm holding you. I want you to walk, just a little.
Take a step."

"You can't imagine how it feels," protested Lucas.
"The floor's a thousand miles away!" Beads of sweat
were on his forehead.

"That's because you haven't been an upright man
for a matter of five months," laughed the doctor.
"Come; be a big, brave boy, and step out."

"All right; but you swear you'll hold me?"

"I won't let go a second. There! Any pain?"

"N-no; but then, it hasn't hurt for quite a while."

"Ah ! But this is different — all your weight on that
joint. Tired?"

"Awfully. How silly!"

"Steer for the bed and we'll get you in again. Look
at Geoffrey — he's overcome with admiration!"

It was at this juncture that the spectator distin-
guished himself: Lucas and the doctor, "steering for
the bed," disappeared behind a suddenly descending
cataract, over which Geoffrey found he had not the
slightest semblance of control. He stumbled from
the room, sobbing like a school girl in a fit of hys-
terics.

He did not need Kosaloff's statement, ten days
later, as to Lucas's cure; he had known it, in that
moment when Lucas stood, swaying, holding fast to
the doctor, with that look of puzzled incredulity in
his eyes. No; God would not have gone that far
without completing His work.

"And you have no pain at all," Geoffrey marveled,
still dazed with happiness as Lucas exhibited his
paces for Kosaloff in the final test. "And you don't
limp a bit! Oh, it's wonderful!"

"Worth what you've been through, son?" demanded
Kosaloff. An odd expression touched Lucas' face and
was gone.

"Oh, it's not been so bad," said Lucas, airily.

He objected violently to the wheel chair in which
he was established for the trip on the ferries the next
afternoon. But when the little steamer docked at
the island and the half mile climb to Geoffrey's house
was still to do, he looked up gratefully enough at his
friend.

"You were right," he admitted. "I'm tired already,
even sitting down all the way. I'd never have made
it."

"I'm glad we didn't try an auto," remarked Geof-
frey. "It would have been easier in some ways,
around to Tiburon and over the causeway; but I was
afraid of the jolting. You're not so very husky yet,
old man."

"Oh, I wanted to see the Bay, anyhow. It seems
ages .... How lovely our island looks! How
green everything is!" He lay quietly back in his
chair, while Geoffrey pushed him slowly along the
winding roads.

"There's the big tree," said Geoffrey, as they
rounded the last curve. "And there's Mrs. Courtland
at the door. Hope she's got everything shipshape.
She's had a deuce of an easy time these last five
months. I haven't slept here more than half the
time. Can you walk down to the door? I don't think

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I can manage the chair down these steps very well."

"Of course I can walk," laughed Lucas, crawling
out of his rugs. "That's my chief accomplishment.
How are you, Mrs. Courtland? — Yes, thank you; very
well, indeed. Yes, the bags are coming on the 'bus —
aren't they, Geoffrey? See how the ferns have grown !
And how nice the vines look!"

"Thanks ; I had 'em all trimmed up for your benefit.
Don't get too frisky, now — let me help you down ....
What's the matter?"

Lucas was standing at the top of the stairs that
led from the level of the road to the front door; he
had paused, in the act of stepping down, one foot
on the second stair, and was looking up.

"What's the matter?" repeated Geoffrey, noticing
suddenly that he was very pale.

"The tree . . . ." murmured Lucas. "The tree

Geoffrey glanced up at the great tree that leaned
its graceful length over the brown roof and cobble-
stone chimney of his Castle in Spain.

"The Guardian," he nodded. "Always on the job
.... Lucas, what is the matter with you?"

Lucas rubbed his eyes and turned to Geoffrey with
a troubled look.

"I . . . . I don't know," he faltered. "I thought
.... I thought, for a minute .... I thought it
was .... falling . . . ."

Lucas gained strength rapidly. Day by day Geof-
frey could see his step grow stronger and more firm,
and the hospital pallor give place to healthful color
in cheeks and lips. He slept well and ate well; again
he sat at his work table on the glass-porch, while
Geoffrey went back to his much-neglected frescoes.
And, as the time slipped by, it began to seem to Geof-
frey's anxious eyes, that he was softening and chang-
ing. He did not go to Mass, and no further words
had passed between them touching religious matters;
but it was seldom now that the look of bitter scorn
twisted his beautiful mouth, seldom that Geoffrey was
repelled by the freezing over of the gray lakes of his
eyes.

Spring passed and summer followed. Still the
pledge Geoffrey had made in his behalf that day in
the hospital chapel seemed no nearer to fulfillment.

Still Lucas lived, to all appearances, unmindful of
his God, no word crossed his lips that spoke of an
awakened conscience. Despite the seeming changes,
the softening, the increased gentleness toward him-
self, Geoffrey watched in va\n for any sign by which
he could definitely know God's hand at work upon that
soul. He tried to have faith, tried to believe that it
was so; but fear began to haunt him again — a worse
fear than he had yet known, for now, he told himself,
Lucas was deliberately trifling with heaven. By the
Divine mercy he had been made whole, and he would
not so much as say a "thank you" for the favor.

Geoffrey took refuge from his anxiety in hard work
— in overwork. His frescoes were all completed by
September and other labors begun. Seven o'clock in
the morning saw him at his easel; and when the light

failed in the afternoon, he would fling himself onfl
the couch and fall asleep from sheer exhaustion.l
Lucas pleaded with him, argued, expostulated; Geof-J
frey only laughed, set his teeth, and went on working.1
He was alternately angry with Lucas and pitifully]
tender toward him. These moods became the source]
of increasingly frequent quarrels; for Geoffrey would]
fly at his friend, deluge him with sarcasm, perhaps, |
or scold like a nervous woman, because of some trivial]
disagreement; and then, the fury passed and shame |
possessing him, he would pet and coddle Lucas until]
the little Spaniard became exasperated by the burden!
of affection.

Geoffrey, under this regime, began to suffer from*
insomnia. Not a few hours but whole nights without]
sleep, succeeded by days of steady work at an easel,!
and, as a result, loss of appetite, took the flesh off]
his body as if by magic. Lucas finally appealed tCM
Kosaloff, who took the overwrought painter by theJ
ear, led him to a window, glared at him, poked him]
here and there, and grunted disgustedly.

"Idiot," was the doctor's verdict. He looked from'
Geoffrey to Lucas, and back once more at Geoffrey,
growled, and went out, banging the door.

What sleep Geoffrey found in these interminable
nights was filled with dreams — unhealthy, distress-
ing dreams that left him almost more worn out than
wakefulness; absurd, extravagant dreams, terrible
dreams, full of things utterly foreign to his normal
self, full of cruelty, crime and wickedness of every
description. He became afraid to go to bed. His
nightly prayers were growing horribly mechanical ; it
seemed futile to ask protection through the night and
then to lie down a perfectly easy prey to all the
marauding nightmares known to man. Obviously, he
was not protected. His guardian angel, he thought
with cynical amusement, had gone on a vacation.

One night, having fallen into a drugging sleep after
hours of staring against the darkness, he found him-
self in a torment he had known before, of climbing
stairs, endless stairs; of trying to reach someone
who was calling or crying somewhere. He had hurt
himself, too — hurt his leg .... No, it was Lucas;
who had pain like that to bear; why should he have
to bear it, too? But he would bear anything for
Lucas if ... . Ah, he loved Lucas so much that"
Lucas' suffering had become his. It was dreadful to
love anyone like that — it was the keenest suffering
of all. But he would bear that, too, if ... . Now
he was in a dimly lighted place; and there at his
feet was the sight he had feared, something he had
seen before — a figure with outstretched arms, like a
crucifix .... He struggled with the dream and]
came near the surface of consciousness, understand-
ing that it was a dream. He tried to wake, in terror
of what he would see if the world of shadows longer
held him prisoner; but the tide of slumber swept
over him more strongly, and he sank.

Yes — it was Lucas that he saw, lying stretched
beside the cross .... Lucas, his face upturned to
the face of Christ. Then he began to scream in his
dreaming, and woke himself; he sat upright in bed

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with the sweat pouring off him, wide-eyed, in a cold
dawn that had come with rain and wind hammering
'at his casement windows. He sat for a moment,
(panting; then lay down and drew the covers over
him. He had come back just in time, he thought —
just in time. If he had stayed Out There, he would
have seen — What would he have seen? He pressed
his hands over his eyes, shuddering.

Words, like a strain of music, sounded in his ears —
words that he had heard — words that he knew so well :

"His left hand is under my head.

And His right hand doth embrace me . . . ."

It was all so terrible, the mockery of it, with those
two lying there .... How had he imagined that
gracious sound of chanting? There was no chanting;
he had only heard a voice cry out, calling him, as he
climbed those endless stairs ....

He turned over in bed and sat up again. He must
have caught cold, lying in the beating wind and the
rain, which had wet his pillow; for he was stiff and
sore. No wonder he dreamed of climbing stairs and
all the rest of it! It was part and parcel of the usual
entertainment that pursued him every night.

"If I keep on like this, I'll be a candidate for a
padded cell pretty soon," he murmured. He got up,
wrapped his dressing gown about him, and went out
through the draughty halls to the shower bath. Rub-
bing himself warm after the shock of the icy water,
he felt braced and comparatively cheerful. The stiff-
ness and soreness disappeared; it must have been a
sort of hysteria, resulting from his dream of Lucas.
He was perpetually dreading some return of Lucas'
old trouble, too: that was constantly on his mind.
Altogether, he reflected, ruefully, he was in no posi-
tion to preach to Lucas of tangled psychology!

He could not quite make out, as he tried to think it
over, why he had been so terrified just now, in the
land of the unreal. It was the same dream that he
had dreamed more than a year ago, before Lucas'
accident on the stairs. It was a beautiful dream . . .
if one could forget that crying in the dark, and
that climbing. It had not occurred to him before to
connect it with Lucas' fall ; but there were the stairs
— the stairs — and again, in this new vision, the stairs!
It was all very queer and confusing, especially his
terror and his desperate struggle to wake, as he had
repeated the adventure an hour ago. Was it not sim-
ply that his hopes and longings for Lucas had created
in his mind this picture of infidelity embraced by a
forgiving God? Was it a picture of what might be,
painted by his passionate desires? And why was he
afraid? If he had not waked .... It was the same
dream, exactly the same dream. It had frightened
him before, but he had never understood why. And
now — why had it come again ? Was some new danger
threatening Lucas? Why should one fear a dream of
the crucified Christ? Yet — there was something
wrong, somewhere .... something wrong ....
Oh, he was behaving like a superstitious old woman!
He dressed and went into the kitchen to brew

himself some coffee. Mrs. Courtland would not be
about for another hour. The house was cold as a
tomb. How it rained ! The first storm of the season,
and a beauty! The wind swept over the house, rat-
tling the windows, howling under the eaves. He
would make a fire in the studio and have things cozy
when Lucas got up. It was a good day to rest and
loaf. He would loaf. He was really overdoing things.
Kosaloff was right — he was an idiot.

He kept his promise to himself and loafed very
completely, coaxing Lucas into the same procedure.
They played cards and watched the rain from the
glass-porch; they read aloud to each other; they got
out Lucas' guitar and Lucas played and sang.

This was when the light was failing and they were
sitting before the log fire, under the great bronze
cross that hung above the mantelpiece. Lucas sat
on the rug, the firelight glinting on his black hair.
Geoffrey, slumped in an arm chair, smoked, watched,
and listened, while Lucas sang the Song of the Swal-
low, La Golondrina, the storm-tossed wanderer.

"Tambien yo estoy en la region perdido," sang
Lucas: "I too, am lost, and I cannot fly to safety — "
Geoffrey sat silent, as the sweet voice died away
and the slender brown fingers picked idly at the
guitar strings, running out little trills and bird-notes.
How exquisitely Lucas sang. How well he did every-
thing he set himself to do. How much he had wasted
of himself, burning up his energy in useless and bitter
war! Geoffrey stared down somberly at the black
head in the firelight; Lucas sat picking at the guitar
strings; the fire crackled and the wind howled down
the chimney.

A particularly fierce gust swept by, tearing at the
roof and walls as if with great clawing hands, and
a blanket of rain was flung against the windows.
Lucas started, shivering. He glanced about, with
a sudden look of alarm, and raised his eyes to Geof-
frey's face.

"I — I wish it would stop," he said.
"I like it," declared Geoffrey. "I can rest, when
something else is doing the roaring and quarreling
for me."

"You have been deucedly grumpy just lately," re-
marked Lucas, tossing aside the quitar and stretch-
ing out on his back. "Have I been rubbing you the
wrong way, amigo?"

"You're feeling fit these times, aren't you?" Geof-
frey counter-questioned. "Sleeping well, eating well,
working well. Kosaloff's as proud of you as if he'd
made you."

"He did," nodded Lucas. "He made me, with his
little mallet and chisel. I was an impossible brute,
wasn't I? But I couldn't hold out. He's too strong.
I hated him. I almost hated you, Gofredo. I didn't
believe in Kosaloff, you see. I couldn't believe that
anything so good could ever happen .... And
now — well, I love him .... at least, I think I do.
I've never loved anyone — anyone else, except ....
yourself, Gofredo m-mio . . . ." The shy stammer
and the hand laid on his knee sent a wave of emotion

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over Geoffrey. If Lucas would let the softness of his
nature rule him oftener, how much of sorrow and
distress would pass him by!

"It's good to know that a man can have two such
friends in a lifetime," continued Lucas, his eyes on
the dancing flames. "It makes one think that per-
haps . . . ."

"Yes?" urged Geoffrey softly. Something in Lucas'
expression made his heart quicken. It was a look he
had not seen for a long time .... The little Span-
iard sighed and turned over, hiding his face on his
arms.

"Let's go for a walk around the world," he said,
drowsily. "Let's get Kosaloff and go to the rain-
bow's end. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world —
is it? Let's go a-sailing beyond the sunset and the
baths of all the western stars. Let's go and find the
topless towers of Ilion. I'd like to have you on each
side of me — you and Kosaloff. But that's just the
stuff that dreams are made of. Nothing like that
could pessibly happen."

"You just admitted that dreams come true occa-
sionally," retorted Geoffrey.

"Yes ; but — "

"But?" Geoffrey leaned forward.

"Occasionally, also, one wakes, to find that it was
just a dream, after all. It's when you're very deep
asleep that you think it's true .... Ah, Geoffrey!
Suppose .... suppose I should wake up!"

Geoffrey bent down, putting a hand on the other's
shoulder. "Look at me," he said. "Take your nose
out of that stuffy fur; it's probably full of germs."

"I like germs; they're companionable little things.
And they can't help it."

"Can't help what?"

"Being germs. The Lord — He made 'em that way,
didn't He? 'The luckless — germ — He marred in
making — ' "

"Lucas! Sit up and talk to me."

"Oh, go away, and let me alone, can't you? I want
to go to sleep — and dream."

The storm raved and raged, seeming to rock the
island in its furious assault. One of the studio win-
dows blew open, letting in a gust of rain. Geoffrey
rose to refasten it, and paused, looking out over the
bending tree-tops and the swaying shrubs. It was as
if the hill-side below had gone mad; the world was
dancing to an insane measure. He wandered back
to the fireplace, took his pipe from the mantel, and
settled down in the arm chair.

"Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day,
Little Lucas wants to play,"

he ventured, touching the prostrate figure experi-
mentally with one foot. But Lucas had really fallen
asleep.

As Geoffrey thought about it afterwards, he could
not discover the ghost of a reason why he should have
left the room exactly when he did. He had smoked

his pipe out and must have fallen into a doze himself, 1
in the big arm chair. How did he chance to wake, at i
that particular moment? Why did he get up. and, a
for no reason at all, leave the studio and go down- 1
stairs? He could never remember having had any jj
object in doing so; in fact, he had no sooner reached)
the lower hallway, than he stopped and turned to go fl
back.

Then something happened. It all came so quickly, t
with such horrible confusion, out of the heart of the |
storm, like a thunderbolt; a crackling, tearing sound, ]
as if the sky were being split — a jar and crash upon I
the shingled roof that shook the house to its founda- I
tions — a second crash, nearer and more strangely |
ominous — a cry ....

Stairs, endless stairs ! The daylight was going, and j
it was hard to climb the steep, endless stairs that ]
loomed through the gloom — would he never reach the |
top of the stairs? Somewhere below him there was i
a woman's voice, raised in a terrified shriek, and I
somewhere above he heard his name called — "Geof-
frey! Geoffrey!" He tripped and fell, in his haste,!
wrenching his knee; a sharp pain shot up his leg as I
he scrambled to his feet. Yes— that was the way one j
got hurt, falling downstairs. How dreadful, to be
lame and helpless ! He must have hurt himself rather
badly; for he fell a second time, striking his head
against the wall. It was so dark .... Had he
fainted? — He started up, in an agony of fear . . . .
No; it was nothing; he had only stumbled, climbing
the stairs in the dark.

He reached the top step and stumbled through the j
hallway to the studio door, which stood half open —
flung it wide

The log fire had burned low; but in the flicker of j
its dying flame he saw a dark shape, like a crucifix, i
stretched on the hearth-rug; and beside it, half under
it, a second figure .... a figure moving feebly,
moaning

He sprang forward and tried to lift the great
weight of bronze beneath which the struggling man
was pinned; but his hands seemed powerless; and
as he strained and tugged, a crippling pain ran
through him from knee to shoulder, half paralyzing
him. Ah — yes! This was the moment he needed
strength; and so .... That was where the fun came
in ... .

"Lucas!" he cried. "Lucas!"

The thing must have dropped like an avalanche,
when the cracked beam ripped under the shock of the
falling tree; a wonder it had not killed him instantly.

"Lucas, are you hurt? Lucas!"

He saw a white face, dim in the failing firelight,
eyes that glared, and struggling hands whose
strength ebbed away .... a thorn-crowned head,
whose half-opened lips, even in that moment could
have blessed .... extended arms that could have
sheltered and caressed ....

He dragged the slender body free at last and lifted
it very gently, though he knew too well it was beyond
the need of gentleness. There was blood staining the

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pallor of the face, and the right leg swung loose, in a
curious, sickening way. He laid his burden on the
couch, and rose, staggering. The wind, swooping and
careering over the house, played fiendishly among the
branches of the overthrown tree; Geoffrey could hear
them, knocking and scraping on the roof. "Let us in,
let us in," chuckled the branches. "Let us in!"

It was nearly dark now; for the fire had gone, all
but one tiny spark; and it was cold, too. He laid a
rug, a brightly colored Indian blanket, over Lucas,

that covered him to the chin with the gaudy pall of
red and blue and yellow. The soft black hair, matted
on the forehead, he smoothed back. The gray eyes
were glazing, and he closed them.

Mrs. Courtland was calling below stairs, hysterical-
ly; now she was coming up ... .

He turned and limped across the room, avoiding
by a wide circuit the hearth-rug and the dark blur
of the bronze crucifix, then he went out into the hall,
closing the studio door behind him.

The End

THE BLONDE ANGEL

By Mary Dodge Ten Eyck

LEASE, father, pull the poster down!" pleaded
Inga. She half seated herself on the arm of
his chair and laid her hand lightly on his
shoulder.

"And take back those men who went on a strike
when I needed them most! No!" Jan Ericson pressed
his lips together firmly, almost cracking the stem of
his pipe between his strong teeth.

"But you know they were in the right, even the
Process Company admitted that!"

The big man grunted. In his blue eyes there was
no mercy, as he shook his head stubbornly. "There
will be plenty others to take their places!"

Inga dropped to her knees. She was tall and slen-
der with the fair hair and skin that belonged to her
forefathers' race. Her clear eyes so like those of Jan
Ericson pleaded with him as she took his hand. "That
is just the trouble. The strike men are Italians, and
this new crew would be Poles and Swedes. And the
Italians think you are favoring your race!"

"I am a naturalized American; you were born in
America!" exclaimed her father staunchly.

"But they don't think of that. They just call you
the big Swede foreman." Inga knew her father al-
most idolized her; but he was stern, and the girl had
a wholesome fear of him. So she coaxed. "There
will be a fight between the two sides."

"Humph!" scorned her father.

"But Mario said so and he knows," urged Inga.
The Hiief foreman knew this was true, as the young
Italian Mario was a leader among his men. With a
last effort the daughter begged, "Do please take the
poster down!"

"No!"

Inga said no more. She rose and went over to the
living room window. It looked on a field which seemed
to separate the Italian frcm the Polish and Swedish
quarters of this immigrant settlement. At the back
end of the field was the Process Works, that was to
re-open tomorrow. A crowd of men stood about its
entrance talking and gesticulating. Inga could al-
most imagine she heard their angry words, as they
read the poster saying strike men need not apply for

their jobs. The girl strained her eyes to make out the
forms.

"Mario there?" she breathed, inquiringly.

Glancing back into the living room, she uncon-
sciously itemized the comfort of its homeliness. Per-
haps the red rug with its bright figures, the widely
decorative wall paper, even the ugly pieces of bric-a-
brac did not give her the shock it would to one who
was used to beauty. But she did note the comfort and
prosperous air of their cheery home and thought
with a sigh of these shacks around them, the homes
of the really poor. Many a time they had not enough
to eat or to keep them warm. Even now some tenants
feared being put out of their poor shelters for over-
due rent.

Suddenly a shot rang thru the air. Before Inga
could turn back to the window it was answered by
another. The fight Mario had foretold ! Jan Ericscn
sat quietly in his chair unheeding, while Inga ran to
the side piazza. Men frcm the Process Works
swarmed into the field. Low angry words grew into
a sullen roar. Children and women joined the
throngs. Sadly out of place were they, but their
shrill cries seemed to cut through the men's hoarse
rumblings. It seemed to Inga like the gathering of a
fearful storm. As the crowd came near her she
crouched in the corner. Her pride would not let her
run away. She looked and looked for Mario. Could he
not control his men?

Part of the angered Italians turned into the Polish
section, just as Inga in fright saw a group of huge
Swedes crouch over to the Italian border. The broad
meadow became a skirmish field. The din grew
louder. Cheers and threats rang out amid the dreaded
reports of pistols. Inga began to shiver. She was
far safer indoors. The chief foreman's daughter
might be a fine target for these angered men.

Once more the girl glanced towards her father.
His brow was stern and his lips pressed tight. He
would not even heed the riot without. There was a
heavy scowl on his face which. made his daughter
fear him more than she ever had before. Another
look over the maddened crowd, with a stifled scream
Inga saw a crowd of Poles with lighted torches wind
slowly towards the Italian quarters.

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April, 1922

"Mario!" Inga again cried suddenly with a little
pain. With hasty resolution she ran down the steps
into the crowd.

"Inga, the big Swede's daughter!" was at least a
target for threats and an occasional stone slipped
closely by her. But she pushed her way through the
crowd. Several Italian children knew and ran to her.
Bravely she dodged between elbows, her courage re-
turning with every step. A shot slanted through her
hair just as a little Italian boy ran to her in fear and
crying. Hardly had he put his arms about her when
a stone, not meant for him, struck his forehead and
the innocent blood gushed out. Angered, with flash-
ing eyes, Inga snatched up the lad in her strong arms,
shielding him as well as she could, and with one
mighty effort reached the Process Works. Then at
last she spied,

"Mario!"

"Inga!" he returned in astonishment.

"Oh Mario, you are all right?"

"Yes, yes." But you shouldn't be here, Inga, you
might get hurt!"

"I am come to take down the poster!"

"Your father is willing?" asked Mario with glad-
ness in his voice.

"It is all right. Help me!" she parried.

"Your father would never send you here now! He
is not willing!"

"Oh, I tell you, Mario, it is all right!" Inga's blue
eyes challenged him and her father's stubbornness
came about her mouth. She held the little boy to
Mario. "Come," she turned to the crowd about her,
"bring me a chair, stool, something to stand on!"

Someone brought a box, and quick as a flash she
jumped on it and tore down the poster.

"And now, men, go spread the news. The old men
have the first chance for jobs!"

There was a growl of assent; and the men hump-
ing their shoulders up and thrusting their hands in-
to their pockets strolled away, well satisfied with
themselves.

"Now Father must take them back," the girl told

Mario in a low tone as her face grew whiter, "and
you, Mario, must quiet your men!"

"What have you done, Inga?" questioned Mario,
realizing full well.

"I have done the right thing," she replied. Sudden
shyness made her turn quickly to the injured child.
Then her glance swept over the crowd. Many were
wounded and bruised and bleeding. Once more, loud
and clear, her voice rang out, "Bring all the injured
to the Process Hospital, and Mario," she pleaded in a
lower tone, "get the doctor quick!" Hurrying to the
faithful guard of the Process Works, Inga continued,
"Please open the hospital door. These people must be
cared for."

He hesitated; but something in her voice made him
obey. Perhaps he thought of the chief foreman. Soon
the doctor was there and the patients were under
treatment. Inga helped, bathing and dressing the
wounds of Italians, Swedes and Poles. Nationality
was nothing to her. When all were provided with
beds, the girl passed among them with a word of
kindness for all.

"See-da blonda angela!" muttered one old Italian,
and his words were taken up in four languages.

Just then, Jan Ericson appeared in the doorway.
Mario first saw and ran over to him.

"You know, Mario, my girl took down the poster?"
he asked.

"Yes, and stopped the riot," returned the other.

Inga, was still helping and cheering the patients as
her father came over to her. She returned his silent
gaze with a beseeching look. Gently Jan Ericson put
his arm around her shoulder and drew her toward
him. The two were seldom demonstrative.

"Inga, girl, you are brave, and I am proud of you!"

"No, no, father. I was afraid, afraid of the crowds,
of the bullets, and — and of you!"

The big man turned away to hide his emotion.

"Then how could you do it, when you were so afraid
of everything?" asked Mario.

"All the innocent ones, who must always suffer
most at such times," Inga replied.

~- COMING JMEXT MONTH! -*

Marian Nesbitt, author of THE LAMPS OF FIRE,
contributes another charming story of love and sacrifice

■ FOR BASEL'S SAKE

Edited by Grace Keon

"To make and hold
yourself good is the
best start toward
making the world
goo d." (Tertiary
Convention.)

BY way of preamble I would like
to say that there is a certain
note creeping into the letters
which come to the editor of this de-
partment — the friendly note — which
is going to assure its success. For
this friendly atmosphere is the very
ore I wish to create. Women are
glad to meet on equal grounds, and
discuss the different annoyances
that. may be helped by counsel with
others who have experienced them.
Of course, one need never expect to
find on these pages the life prob-
lems, discussions of which form so
big a part of secular magazines for
women. We have a straight road
and a guiding hand, and the great
Sacrament of Penance — and did you
ever take time to feel sorry for those
who haven't this leading and this
help? But there are mild problems,
nevertheless, and we have oddities
and ways of doing things, and it's
good to compare the one and ex-
change the other. This month I re-
ceived two letters from business
girls, and three from mothers with
little children. Unless the letters
contain something of general inter-
est I will not reproduce them here,
as it would not be fair to occupy
space. We welcome both praise and
criticism — praise gives us courage
and criticism makes us grow. Re-
member, one who never makes a
mistake twice, can safely be called
one who never makes a mistake. I
understand the women in business
and their problem, for I have been
a business woman; I comprehend
the worries of a wife and mother,
because I am both.

One letter — the author is Mary A.
Kennedy, and she lives in a small
Eastern town, contains the follow-
ing:

. "Are you going to give us more
about Danger Signals? The last
paragraph in your March talk
seemed to indicate this, and I am
curious. You made me feel — well,

LUXURY-LOVERS

not guilty, but a little apprehensive.
I possess a beautiful silver rosary,
a gift from a dear friend — surely
you don't mean we are extravagant
when we pray on pretty rosaries?
As for an automobile, I never ex-
pect to own one, but I wish I did.
Now, dear Grace Keon, do your
worst!"

Well, Miss Kennedy, do you think
it matters much what your rosary
is made of — gold, or silver, or prec-
ious stones? The rosary in Mrs. A's
case was an arraignment of Mrs.
A's spirit — and I am sure you un-
derstand how dangerous is the lux-
ury-loving attitude in our Catho-
lics?

When Mrs. A dropped her gold
rosary into her bag, she dropped her
religion right in there, too. She
went to church when the weather
was fine. A little headache, an un-
expected caller, a trifling distrac-
tion were — and are! — all sufficient
excuses to remain away from church
services, even those of obligation.
Naturally, sloth of soul was the first
fault; envy of neighbor the second,
with all its contingent vices. And
if one's soul is slothful, and one's
mind is filled with thoughts of
equalling or superseding some one
just as foolish as one's self — why,
then arises the supreme danger of
rendering to Caesar everything that
belongs to him, and all that belongs
to God, as well.

And these say:

"0 dear! I do so dislike rubbing
elbows with the common class — and
there are so many of them in our
church!"

And again:

"I know I don't go to church very
often. Why should I? I don't do
anything wrong."

Or once more:

"Of course I should go oftener.
But the sermons are stupid, and
169

there is always something needed,
or something the Fathers want
done — "

Now, one may ejaculate, at this
juncture: "I'm afraid Grace Keon
is exaggerating. The Mrs. A's in
our church are decidedly in the min-
ority." To illustrate their exis-
tence I will repeat a conversation
I had with a certain parish priest
on this very spirit of worldliness.

"I was called to the phone this
morning," he said, "and a shrill,
feminine voice — but evidently the
voice of an educated woman —
came to me over the wire.

" 'Is this Father W?' it asked.

" 'It is,' I answered.

" 'Well, we are newcomers to the
parish, and won't you tell me just
what Mass the nice people attend?'

"'The nice people?'" Father W.
was astonished. " 1 don't quite un-
derstand — '

" 'Oh, the nice people — the better
class,' she responded. 'We would
rather not mix with the other kind!'

" 'Oh !' "—and Father W. was still
wrathful when repeating the dia-
logue to me — " 'the very nicest peo-
ple, Madam, come to the six o'clock
Mass, in order to receive Holy Com-
munion. You'll find some of them at
every Mass, but they're in the ma-
jority at the early one.' "

This is a true story — and you
can't get away from the fact that
there are perverted ideas in the
minds of a few of our people. Those
who hold these ideas will not see
these lines — they have no use at all
for our Catholic magazines! But
friendship with such — outside the
dictates of charity — is to be as care-
fully avoided as friendship with any
other person who may injure your
faith. For the thing we Catholics
have to guard most against is imi-
tation of the luxury-loving world in
which we live. When one goes back

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April, 1922

over ancient history — when one
reads of the condition of the Roman
kingdom in those days when Rome
was the admiration of the world;
when one reads that two-thirds of
the population were slave and one-
third master. That the poorest
freeman possessed at least a dozen
slaves, that work was despised, that
to labor with one's hands was con-
sidered degrading, that to exert
one's self was demoralizing. When
one reads of the condition of the
women of that time, going from lux-
ury to luxury, and from luxury to
sensuality, until in every orgy, in
every circle of debauchery, women
were participants and often leaders
— degraded womanhood, degraded
nation !

And then the Barbarians, strong
and vigorous and hard by reason of
plain living fell upon this effete
city, the glory of pagan Rome van-
ished in its love of luxury. But in
that terrible cataclysm, as it has
been called, when the Barbarian
would have swept away every ves-
tige of Roman learning and culture
the monk saved the world. How?
By placing before the Vandal and
the Goth the virtue, the value of
work — work with the hand, with the
mind.

May not the contrast be drawn
now? How many of our people look
upon labor as the greatest blessing
God has given to man? Who wants
to do an honest day's work for an
honest day's pay? The majority?
Not if one can believe the verdict of
business men in every walk of life.
As for women — never have women
had such opportunities. What are
they doing with them? How many
are willing to give up "good jobs"
for one that doesn't pay in money or
ease, but is the biggest job of all —
the job which God permits them to
share with Him — the family? Our
own people are infected by this ter-
rible and false idea. The business
woman of today declares she cannot
live on her husband's income — so
she "keeps her job" — and a pet dog
— and a limousine!

Our civilization has a situation
confronting it as bad as Rome's ever
was — and I use that expression in
all its meaning. The young man,
the young woman, want their names
on the pay-roll, and a salary envel-
ope at the end of the week. What

they do to earn the contents of that
envelope in between "is nobody's
business anyhow, and the boss is
rich, and we should worry!"

The girl likes to powder her nose
and to wear silk stockings and
costly other things. "Nowhere in
the world," we are told, "do the
women dress as well as they do in
America!" One can surely believe
it if one walks along a crowded
avenue in any of our principal cities.
No, I am not old-fashioned, and I
don't believe a girl should "look
like a freak." I think every girl is
entitled to her girlhood. She should
be able to dance decently, prettily;
she should dress decently, prettily.
She should be up-to-date enough to
know what is going on in the world
about her, and how that "what" is
affecting the interests of her re-
ligion. If one's nose is shiny, a
touch of pure talcum will neither
hurt nor offend any one. Every
woman should be as sweet and pret-
ty and dainty as soap and water can
make her, whether she is fourteen
or forty-four. And if no Catholic
ought to shut her religion in her bag
with her beads, no Catholic ought
to shut her beauty in a bag, either.
I was talking to a missionary priest
at one time, and he said, in all ser-
iousness : "You know, your Amer-
ican women are just like the Mon-
golians! They are the only women
in China who paint themselves so
frightfully ! I often wonder how the
custom was imported here!" Please,
dear Catholic Girl, don't be a Mon-
golian — and if you only knew how
hungry one's eyes are for the sweet
little, neat little being "who
doesn't." What a welcome relief!

It seems a long cry from the gold
rosary to this talk, but it all comes
under the one heading: Luxury-
lovers. Luxury-lovers ruined Rome.
Luxury-lovers will ruin any nation.
Little Miss Average Catholic Girl,
are you a luxury-lover? Oh, no, I
hear you assert, I'm not. Far from
it.

Let us see.

Silk stockings cost — well, we
won't betray any secrets, but do you
put the tenth part of their price in
the poor-box each week?

Shoes are tremendously expensive
— the fashionable kind — and veils —
and gloves — Is your name on the
monthly contribution list?

"Movies" are here to stay. Are
you too tired to go to the "movies"
twice a week, or does that tired
feeling only assail you on evenings
when there are church devotions?

Most decidedly you are a luxury-
lover if you fish down into a thir-
ty-dollar beaded bag for a nickel to
put into the collection basket.

Yo'u are indeed a luxury-lover if
you put anything in God's world
above your God.

Let's be honest. We have such a
tremendous debt to pay. We have
so much in our Faith. Some one
suffered to give it to us. Some one
built the church or chapel in which
we kneel. How many sacrifices are
we making to carry on? You only
love a thing in proportion to the
work you put into it — and if we are
luxury-lovers we will take all and
give nothing. But we can carry
nothing out of this world save what
we have given away or, as the Chi-
nese have it: "there are no pockets
in a shroud."

Where do you stand?

To Renovate the Brass on an Iron
Bedstead

Put a little vinegar in a small
saucepan. Let it get hot, but do
not allow it to boil, or it will become
too sticky to use. Apply with a fine
piece of flannel, only doing a little
at a time, and polish quickly.

Hair Brushes

Before washing hair brushes,
smear a little good vaseline over the
backs. This prevents the ammonia
or soda water in which they are
washed from injuring the wood. The
vaseline should afterward be tub-
bed off carefully, and the back pol-
ished with dry cloths.

White Paint

Try oatmeal for cleaning white
paint. Dip a damp cloth in the oat-
meal and rub the paint over well
with this. Then wipe with a clean,
damp cloth, and polish with a clean
duster. Oatmeal is especially ef-
fective in removing fingermarks
from doors.

A Strip of Carpet

Glued to a piece of wood will re-
move mud from shoes very quickly
and without the slightest injury to
the leather. It is much better than
the usual brush.

April, 1922 FRANCISCAN HERALD 171

A FRIENDLY CHAT IN THE acter that would ever make the tion to feel that this atmosphere

INTEREST OF WOMEN'S story unforgettable, even had Maria has been appreciated, and that its

RFADINC not won our f avor — Madame Chap- most absorbing touches portray the

delaine. Yes, the story is that of daily life lived as all true Catholics

LAST month I spoke here of one Maria and Francois — young love live it — though not always under
of the very oldest books I know and y0U ng sorrow. But this woman such rigorous conditions. The
—one that, in my opinion should ap- wn0 had followed her husband into world that has been going mad over
peal to Catholics — the LILY OF IS- the wilderness now "stood, hands books that I would not permit in-
RAEL. That dear book is a well- n hips, dreaming," as Maria des- side our home, so filthy and con-
loved companion, but its reading is cribes the changes that have taken taminating are they!— has breathed
probably confined to Catholics alone p i ace j n h er \$ home. And then for a short while the pure air that
I —the subject will never appeal to her wide-embracing comment, "Per- follows devotion to duty and God!
1 the world at large. haps it is wicked of me to say so, Prayer, resignation, love of God and
This month I am going to call but all my married life I have felt Church and priest — they are all
1 your attention to a new book — a sorry that your father's taste was here. Of course those who do not
purely Catholic story — that has for moving and pushing on and on believe with us are not reading this
J made an impression on all classes into the woods." book for the Catholic spirit in it.
I of people. The story is a transla- It is not my intention to tell the They judge it as a little gem of real-
I, tion from the French of Louis story of MARIA CHAPDELAINE, ism, confined to the Lake St. John
Hemon, beautifully done by W. H. for anyhow the story does not mat- country. They would be astonished
I Blake. Its title is "MARIA CHAP- ter. The book is not one* to be if we said to them, as we would
i DELAINE: a Tale of the Lake St. taken for idle reading — one must like to, with supremest satisfac-
John Country." Louis Hemon, the go over it slowly, since no words are tion: "But this is CATHOLIC life!"
I author — who has since died — came wasted, and much is said in a single j n our Catholic families all over
from France to seek his fortune in sentence. "Life had always been a this broad land is the good father
| the West, and lived, for a year and simple and straight-forward thing laboring with hand and mi ht ^
I a half, in the wild back country of for them -so Maria begins her conserve for his fami] the thi
I Quebec. He not alone studied the thousand Aves, secure in her faith ... . , ,.
! people, as such men study, but that her desire will be granted-the » ecessai T to their existence; there
I rather, as he bent his frame to the sweet desire of a shy and innocent ls the good mother . striving and
I clearing of the soil, he must have maiden that Francois may come P ra y im ? for the betterment of her
I absorbed love of soil and people once more. But after the destruc- home ; there are the S ood children,
I through his industry. His descrip- tion of her dear romance, when the with their earnest prayers at night
I tions are wonderfully true, for he cold and frozen land caused her and in the morning, and very, very
|j has thought and struggled with lover's death, came a sorrow as often said in common. And the
i ! those of whom he writes — and his poignant. There is terrible realism thousand Aves — how many make the
book carries that conviction in its in the illness and passing of Ma- thousand Aves before the holy
r every line. Beautifully the story dame Chapdelaine — the disease that Christmas season, for some dear
opens with the congregation coming baffled all their rude skill — and friend or to obtain some special
out of the small church after Sun- then the resignation to the inevit- blessing? Yes Louis Hemon has
j day Mass, and the minute outlining able when the cure comes to prepare drawn a real picture and we can
I of the attire of these men and wo- the soul for its last long journey. dl say ,. This . g our Hf ^

men sets us in the midst of them. After all, it is not for the storv . ., ,., , . , , , ., . .

H v , , ,, . ,. , .I , , t -j u is the life we desire to lead; this is

> iou are going to share their lives one reads the book, as I said above. ,.«.,,... x .„

for a brief space, his words seem to It is Life-Life itself. We follow what Catholicity means to us!

! indicate, and you must be able to these, who have deserted the civil- And from Catholic pulpits, and

| recognize them — so that when you ization of cities to "make land," in Catholic magazines, in all our

f encounter old Nazaire Larouche clearing away trees and stumps and social organizations, we are striv-

I again on the road you will be able brush to wrest a foot of soil from ing to keep this life intact. That is

| to say to him, quite politely, "Good- the wilderness. We see them eager why we raise our voices in protest

I day to you, M'sieu!" in youth, absorbed in old age. And against the customs of the day! We

That is just the little and first Maria herself, antagonized by the do no t ii ve j n the land of silent

touch that creates appetite for the coldness and barrenness that had p] aceS) but every true Catholic has

tale. Maria is returning with her taken toll of her happiness, in the njs ^ n s n e nt " place MARIA

father from a visit to her mother's end succumbs to the lure of the si- CHA PDELAINE and her mother

relatives, and she and Frangois lent places. be understood b Catho .

Paradis meet, after not seeing each And now I must add a few re- ,. . , , m , ,

other in seven years. Romance marks that the book inspires, and hc f .f r ~ BT ?™ll!?

brushes by, and interest is roused in vet which some might think irrele- our behet llke MAK1A LHAPDE-

both young hearts. Then Maria sets vant. MARIA CHAPDELAINE has LAINE because it is "a word picture

out with her sturdy father to her been an instantaneous success. Men without an inharmonious note."

home in the clearing. After a diffi- and women, regardless of creed. We like it because we alone can un-

cult journey we meet the fine char- praise it. It is a delightful sensa- derstand its deeper language.

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in sizes 36, 40 and 44 inches bust meas-
ure. Size 36 requires 4 yards 36-inch
material. Pattern, 15c.

No. 9375. Men's and Boys' Shirt.
Cut in sizes 12%, 13, 13%, 14, 14%, 15,
15%, 16, 16%, 17, 17%, 18, 18V 2 and 19
inches neck measure. Size 14 % requires
3% yards 36-inch material. Pattern, 15c.

No. 1293. Girls' Middy Dress. Cut
in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size
8 requires 1% yards 36-inch material
with % yard 30-inch contrasting for
blouse and 1% yards 36-inch material
for skirt. Pattern, 15c.

No. 1318. Girls' Cape Dress. Cut in
sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 ,
requires 3% yards 36-inch material. n
Pattern, 15c.

No. 1298. Child's Dress. Cut in sizes
2, 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 4 requires 2%
yards 36-inch material. Pattern, 15c.

No. 1035. Ladies' Apron. Cut in
sizes 36, 40 and 44 inches bust measure.
Size 36 requires 4 yards 32-inch ma-
terial. Pattern, 15c.

No. 9999. Girls' Dress. Cut in sizes
6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires
2% yards 36-inch material with % yard
36-inch contrasting. Pattern, 15c.

No. 1171. Ladies' and Misses' Dress.
Cut in sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and

174

F R A X C I S C A X HERALD

April, 1922

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A HANDSOME SET

No. 2000. Pillow, with back, 18x22,
stamped and tinted on heavy tan beach
cloth, for embroidery in blue, black and
yellow. Price 95 cents. We do not sup-
ply fringe.

No. 2001. Scarf, 18x48 inches,
stamped and tinted on heavy tan beach
cloth to match Pillow No. 2000. Price
for scarf $1.30. We do not supply
fringe.

No. 2002. Centerpiece, 36 inches,
stamped and tinted on heavy tan beach
cloth, to match pillow and scarf above.
Price for centerpiece $1.65. We do not
supply fringe. Cheek, money order, or
registered letter for either or all of
above to Franciscan Herald Pattern
Service, Corona, N. Y.

We expect to show each
month on these pages dif-
ferent articles that we
hope will prove attrac-
tive to many of our read-
ers. Last month we gave
the beautiful Roman
Cross Alter Lace, and
were extremely gratified
with the number who
sent in, asking for the di-
rections. Among other
useful articles in crochet-
ing and knitting which
we have in preparation,
is a handsome "wee rose"
outfit for a baby. This
we expect to illustrate
shortly.

As many of our read-
ers are far from the large
stores, we have made ar-
rangements to give ex-
amples, from time to
time, of fancy work simi-
lar to those shown here
this month. Those moth-
ers of little girls who are
not very good sewers
(and who may be, we
hope, contemplating a
course in one of our
dressmaking Institutes
spoken of elsewhere in
the HERALD) will surely
be pleased with the little
dress displayed. It is ready-made
in 8, 10 and 12 year sizes. "Ready-
made" means, in this instance, that
the garment is cut in the size
ordered, carefully sewn and finished.
and stamped for the embroidery,
which you are to do.

The serviceable white guimpe
shown (No. 2026) is of an excellent
quality of batiste, and well put to-
gether. It is stamped for embroidery
and the embroidery cotton is fur-
nished. The dress (No. 2052) is of
good quality dark-blue Hnene. The
design stamped on the neck, arm-
holes and bottom are to be worked in
buttonhole, lazy daisy, eyelet and
darning stitch in red and green.
Every package contains, first, the
dress itself, then a generous supply

of cotton for embroidery; a chart
showing arrangement of colors and
directions for the stitches used. Over
thirty stitches used by workers in
embroidery are also illustrated. Any
one who can handle the "magic I
wand" as the needle has been called,
can do this work, for everything is i
explained in detail, and the result
cannot help but be satisfactory.

The handsome set consists of
three pieces. No. 2000 is the pil-
low, 18x22; No. 2001 is the scarf,
18x48; No. 2002 is the centerpiece,
36 inches wide. Each one of these
may be ordered separately, or all
may be ordered at one time. The
(Continued on Page 188)

No. 2026. Ready-made guimpe of
excellent quality batiste, stamped for
embroidery in white, with a generous
supply of D. M. C. embroidery cotton.
Price for guimpe and embroidery cot-
ton, in 8, 10 or 12 year sizes, 90 cents.

No. 2052. Ready-made Girls' Dress,
stamped on dark-blue linen, for em-
broidery in red and green, and a gen-
erous supply of cotton for working, in
8, 10 and 12 year sizes, $1.75. This
does not include belt. Check, money or-
der, or registered letter to Franciscan
Herald Pattern Service, Corona, N. Y.
for above patterns.

April, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

175

Do You Want to Increase the
Family Income?

Then read this story of "an average woman" who not only found a tvay to have pretty,
becoming clothes, but earned $271.20 in three months besides.

FIRST of all, let me say that I am just the
average woman. And I have a husband
and two children. So you see I am not
over-blessed with leisure.

Just as I am the average woman, so I think
my husband is the average man. He has never
earned a large salary and I don't think he ever
will.

About a year ago, I saw with startling clear-
ness that we would never have the little luxuries
and comforts that we longed for unless I could
Bomehow add something to the family income.
"But how ?" That was the question. I couldn't
leave home to work because of the children. I
couldn't write stories, and dear knows, no one
ever accused me of being an artist.

A thousand times I must have tried to think
of something that I could do. But all in vain
until —
A sudden inspiration!

Miss Hill, the best dressmaker in town, had
been "just one of the girls." Then suddenly
every one began noticing her clothes. And then,
just as suddenly, she started a dressmaking
shop of her own and was successful from the
very start.

I wondered how she had done it, because I
kept thinking what a wonderful thing it would
be if I could do as well. So. determined to find
out, I put on my hat, went down to see Miss
Hill, and in as few words as possible, told her
what was on my mind.

She looked at me thoughtfully for a moment
and then reached out and put her hand on mine.
"Can you keep a secret?" she asked quickly.
I nodded yes — breathless with anticipation.
"rpHEN I am going to tell you something I
_L have never told another living soul — out-
side of my own family. I am going to tell you
how I happen to have all these pretty clothes
of my own — how I happen to be what many
people call the best dressmaker in this town.
"Two years ago I was just in your situation
— I needed clothes and I needed money. There
were only three of us, too — father, mother and
myself — but the family income was pitifully
small even for just three. After the rent was
paid. and the butcher bill and the grocery bill
and the doctor bill, there was very little left for
clothes. Mother and I had worn our old things
for so long that we hated to go anywhere
— we were almost ashamed to be seen in public.
"Then one day I heard of an institute of
domestic arts and sciences through which one
can learn, right at home, to make pretty, be-
coming clothes.

"I began wondering, just as you are wonder-
ing now, if I could learn dressmaking. For I
had never done much sewing, and what I had
done had all turned out so badly. But I now
paw that the reason I had failed was because I
had just stumbled along. No one had ever told
me how to sew. I had just picked it up.

"But here was a school which would teach me
in a few short months, the secrets of the dress-
maker's art — how to make garments of every
kind and in the very latest style for just the
cost of materials. It sounded so reasonable that
I determined to at least find out about it. So
that night I clipped and mailed that coupon
to the Woman's Institute, little dreaming that
it was to change my entire life.
"rpODAY I am not only able to make any kind
A. of "garment I may want for myself, but as
you know I am the owner of Ye Little Gown
Shop."

"But did you learn it all through the Woman's
Institute?" I asked incredulously.

"Every bit of it. And it was ever so much
easier than I expected. You see the course
begins with simple stitches and seams, and pro-
ceeds by logical steps until you can design and
make all kinds of becoming dresses, blouses.

Do no

By MARY G. ADAMSON

lingerie, wraps, and even tailored suits and
evening gowns."

"Can I learn right in my own home?" I asked.

"Easily ! And in the little lost moments that
mean nothing to you now. You see it makes
no difference where you live, because all the
instruction is carried on by mail. And it is
no disadvantage if you are employed during the
day or have household duties that occupy most
of your time, because you can devote as much
or as little time to the course as you wish, and
just whenever it is convenient.

"You will find," Miss Hill went on to say,
"that hundreds of women right here in town
are really anxious to find some one who can
design and make clothes for them that are dis-
tinctive and becoming, and they are glad to
pay you well for your services. Really good
dressmakers are always in demand. And the
work is so fascinating and interesting that you
thoroughly enjoy it and at the same time have
a splendid income. And in addition — "

MISS HILL was about to say more, but just
then a customer came in and she begged to
be excused. But I couldn't forget what she
had told me. As a matter of fact, Miss Hill's
words made such an impression on me that as
soon as I got home I looked up the coupon I
had seen so often, put it in an envelope and
mailed it.

"Well, in just a few days I got the full story
of the Woman's Institute. Everything was
just as Miss Hill said it was. So I enrolled.

I was surprised at my progress. Why, after
only the third lesson I made the prettiest blouse
for myself — then a dress for my little girl —
and the cunningest coat for Junior. One of
the finest things about the Institute's course is
that there are no unnecessary preliminaries.
You start right in to make actual garments for
yourself and others. "You learn by doing."

And the lessons are so clear and interesting.
They are written in simple every-day language
that a child could understand. And those won-
derful pictures ! As one fashion expert says,
"You could almost learn dressmaking from the
illustrations alone."

My progress was so rapid that I was some-
times surprised myself at what I was able to do.
My husband just wouldn't believe at first that
I was really making all of those pretty dresses
myself. And when I told him how little they
cost, I think he was prouder of me than he
had ever been in his life. Oh, there's a world
of difference in the price of things when you
pay only for the materials !

Of all my dresses, I think a Harding blue

voile and a simple, girlish checkered gingham

t forget to say: "I saw your ad in Franciscan

were most admired. One woman — a neighbor
— said the voile dress was the prettiest she
had seen all season and wanted me to make her
a similar one. I did. And she was so delighted.

No wonder!

The material cost $4.50 and I charged her
$5 for making it— or a total of $9.50. It couldn't
have been duplicated in the stores for $20 or
$25. And she was very much pleased with the
way it fitted her.

This dress was my best advertisement. First
one neighbor came and then another. The
minute I told them I had studied with the
Woman's Institute they seemed sure that the
work would be well done. In fact, they knew
it would be well done, because they had seen
the clothes I had made for myself and others.

SOON the work was coming in almost faster
than I could handle it. So I engaged first
one helper and then another to do the plain
sewing.

Just the other day I added up my profits
and I found that in the last three months I had
earned $271.20 — or an average of $20 a week.

Everything I make or design brings a good
price and helps me get other customers because
my clothes are distinctive. For the Institute
has taught me the all-important secrets of dis-
tinctive dress — what colors, lines, and fabrics
are most appropriate to different types of women
— how to plan and create original effects — and
how to develop style in a garment and put in
those little touches that make it distinctively
becoming.

Naturally, the money I have earned has meant
a lot to our happiness. We have just moved
into a larger house and I have fitted up two
rooms in it as my workshop. I know that I
am going to earn even more than $20 a week

WOULDN'T you, too, like to have prettier,
more becoming clothes for yourself and
your family for less than half what they now
cost you ? Wouldn't you like to have two or
three times as many pretty dresses at no in-
creased expense?

You can have them, for through the Woman's
Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences you can
learn easily and quickly, right in your own
home, to make them yourself at merely the cost
of materials.

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Conducted by Elizabeth Rose

A BAD EASTER EGG

years 150 or 160, an attempt was say anything more about it. Pope

I made to get the two dates made the Victor did say more about it,

NDEED it was, for those who same; but with no result. Twenty- though; he threatened to excom-
tried to pick it. And it was Eas- five years i a ter, the question again municate its followers if they would
ter itself, or rather the date on ar ose, and proved quite a serious not obey,
which Easter was to be kept. This matter. Two Easters were, to say A number of good bishops begged

him not to go so far, and

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"bad egg" turned up for
nearly 6 centuries in the
Easter baskets, before the
question was finally set-
tled; and it made no end
of bad feeling between
some very good people.
It was this way:

The Apostles, you know,
substituted Sunday for
the Jewish Sabbath, Sa-
turday, because Our Lord
rose from the dead on
Sunday. You know, too,
that the Jewish feast of
the Passover, which Our
Lord was celebrating with
His apostles on the even-
ing of His passion, comes
at the same time as our
Easter. Now the first
Christians were, of
course, Jews converted to
the true faith; and, as
custom is a very hard
thing to change, they
were allowed, in the be-
ginning, to keep the new
festival of Easter on the
14th day of March, as
they had kept their old
one of Passover. St.
Peter, however, changed
this custom when he be-
came Bishop of Rome. He ordained the least, very confusing.

finally the sky grew a bit
brighter; the contrary
Eastern Christians
thought better of the mat-
ter, and consented to obey
as they ought to have
done at first.

It was 400 years later
that the same old egg
rolled out of the Easter
basket. This time, it hap-
pened through the handl-
ing of some pious good
monks who came into
Gaul (France) from the
north of Europe. They
had lived at such a dis-
tance from Rome that
they still followed the
original custom of keep-
ing Easter. You must re-
member that those days
were not like these for
getting news ; a man
might spend his lifetime
in an out-of-the-way
country or place and
learn almost nothing of
what was going on in
other lands. These good
monks had always been
keeping Easter in a cer-
tain way; and when they
So Pope travelled into Gaul and found a dif-
that the Sunday following the 14th Victor I determined to put things ferent custom, they didn't see why
should always be kept as Easter, straight. Would you believe it? The they should change theirs, which
because the 14th did not always fall difference of custom, seemingly so they thought even better. There
on Sunday, and because Sunday was little a thing, began to make a real was another little quarrel, because
the day of the Resurrection. This scandal. The Eastern Church flatly the clergy of Gaul believed in the
order was not enforced strictly refused to obey the Pope when he saying we use now — "When you're
everywhere, notwithstanding; the said there must be but one Easter in Rome, do as the Romans do."
churches of Asia clung to the old for the future throughout the So a flutter ran all about. But it
date, as they had been taught by Church. It acknowledged him as its didn't amount to anything, and there
St. John, their apostle, before St. head, indeed, but its Easter should was harmony again.
Peter made the change. About the not be changed — it was no use to Now wouldn't you think the ques-

176

"APRIL FOOL"

"Chirp I" calls naughty Sparrow, cocking

His small head and gleeful rocking

On the bough where swift come flocking

Other sparrows trustingly.

"Give us some what is it, tell us?

NOTHING? — you just meant to sell us!"
Sparrow laughs: "Now don't be jealous —

Oh, what April Fools you be!'

"Come up quick," sly Blossom whispers
To the buds in earth, her sisters.
"Feel the sun — so warm, it blisters!

Hurry, share its rays with me."

"Here we come," the buds excited
Answer, and push up delighted
All too soon— their petals blighted,

"Oh, what April Fools were we

"What a world this is, deceiving!

It's no use to keep believing

Things turn out all right, and leaving

Care at bottom of the sea.

What's the good of pluck and laughter?

Trouble's sure to follow after,"

Moaned a sad heart. Life just chaffed her

"Wait awhile and you will see
What an April Fool you be!"

April, 1922

tion was settled for good and all by
this time? Not a bit of it. It was
pnly asleep, and woke up again 150
years after, in Britain (England).
The missionaries who had converted
|that country were also accustomed
to the old usage and ignorant of any
trouble concerning it. St. Wilfrid,
a holy bishop of the time, who had
been to Rome, tried to put them
right on the point; but unsuccess-
fully. At last, a great meeting was
called and an earnest talk held upon
the subject. The side that held for
the Jewish date of Easter, under
Bishop Colman, said that their cus-
tom was handed down from the
times of Our Lord Himself. The
other side, St. Peter's advocates,
under Wilfrid, contended that Pope
Victor had altered the date for all
time; that he had a right to do so,
being the successor of St. Peter; and
that all good Christians should do
as Rome did. Had not Our Lord
said to Peter: "Thou art Peter,
and upon this Rock will I build my
Church?"

Present at the meeting was Oswio,
King of Northumbria, then one of

FRANCISC A N II E R A L D

the seven kingdoms of Britain. He
suddenly spoke up:

"Is it true that Jesus Christ spoke
thus to Peter?" he asked Colman.

"Yes, King," answered Colman.

"Did any other receive like power
from Him?"

"Not any, King."

"You both agree, Colman and
Wilfrid, that Christ gave to Peter
and his successors the keys of the
kingdom of Heaven?"

"Yes, King," they replied.

"Then I declare to you," said
Oswio, "that I, for one, will not op-
pose this keeper of the gates of
Heaven, lest when I stand there
none will open to me if he, who holds
the keys, may be unfavorable."

Oswio was in dead earnest and his
speech made others think. From
that time on, the Roman ordinance
was the law in Britain and in the
whole world.

Is it not hard to realize that good
men on both sides should make so
much ado about the keeping of such
a glorious feast, the most glorious
one in the whole calendar? I think
Oswio made the best showing of all

177

and ought to have had a splendid
Easter egg for the bad one he was
instrumental in getting thrown
away.

PALMS AND CABBAGES

There doesn't seem to be much
connection at first sight. There's
but one thing you can do with cab-
bages; as for palms, you can fur-
nish your house with them, thatch
your roof, if that's the kind of roof
you want, make yourself canes, fans,
baskets, umbrellas, thread, almost
anything out of some part of them.
You can use their leaves for writing
paper, or strew them before hero
and conqueror in admiration and
praise, or put them in the martyr's
hand as symbol of his triumph of
valor and faith. You can draw from
them sugar and oil and fruit and —
soap. You can get nuts from them
that are so pretty they can be, and
are, worn for necklaces. You can
put their fibre in your clothing.
There is scarcely anything you can't
get out of them for the asking. One
thing more. You can stand and
gaze at them rising in magnificent

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strength and beauty before your long enough to find out whether you howls that a crowd speedily collected, the

wondering eyes, palms of all varie- are eating just ordinary garden cab- officers and crew of the Arg,

ties, of every part of the world, and bage or a whole splendid tree. among the number, fearful that some

realize how little and yet how big terrib]e accident had h d- Finall

you are compared to them in the - , . „ , . „. , . 1

order of creation Superintendent Backman of the Line

oictei oi cieation. HOW A MONGREL CUR HELD was attracted to the spot He shook his

Let us talk this month about one yp AN OCEAN STEAMER head very firmly at first, but the appeals

Hd t icuLTSr a n t rTni\ r hiS a — -. • -- «*-^ b — f r sympat h " n ' ^r r j the

we have been saying, but it stands cur > as P lain and ordi " ar y as a <™ «n loud sorrowing of Willie s little slaves aj

for a verv good thing in its way— be - did something one day this summer, last won the da y- off he went t0 hunt up

the Cabbage Palm. This is a native says the New York World, that not the ltahan R oya\ Commissioner, who

of the West Indies, growing from ninety-nine out of a hundred of his was saili "g likewise on the Argent ina,

170 to 200 feet high. Its stem alone human masters could have accomplished and Suavely laid the case before him.

measures about 7 feet across. It he held up a big ocean liner, ready to Then and there a health permit was

bears a large bud at its very top, sa ;i f or T ta i yj i a den w ; t h passengers and made out by the Commissioner's own

inclosed in thin white flaky leaves. freight He ' had no influence , no .. pull n hand for "item-one brown dog, of the

This has the flavor of an almond n0 t wav of tti around a name of William Cur," and in short

only sweeter, and it is boiled and ,. * , * „ . or( j er William Cur was tumbled „ n th»

eaten with meat. Think of the in- dlsa S reeable Itallan law that insists ° ldel Iam tul » as tumbled up the

dignity-our splendid Palm reduced on a canine comin S from a forei ^ e ° u - ^T n ^7. " T-™* °Tfl
to the level of "a boiled dinner!" try being put in quarantine for a num- one holdln S him by a string round his
This bud is considered a great deli- her of days, lest the dogs of Italy con- neck - the other, not to be outdone, by one^
cacy and with reason. Its removal tract some foreign dog-disease. Only aiou "d his tail.

kills the tree, a tree which is held a health permit could gain Willie In cons equence of these proceedings,
to be a youngster at the age of 100. prompt entrance; but of this Willie knew th e Argentina departed behind time; a
If the bud is left undisturbed, the nothing, nor had he the slightest pros- loser in this respect, to be sure, but a
tree will live and flourish after gen- pect of procuring one if he had known, gainer beyond question in the over]
erations of men and women and A shut of two weeks or s0 mi ht whelming delight of two small bits of
Young Folk have vanished from the perhapg haye broken hig heart _ ;t ^ humanity and a brown cur.

Z. V, ^l ". „ , tainly would have broken those of his Well, anyway, we know they two won't ,

the Palmetto of our own South- . . „ , „ . nuarrel over the honor of who was rhp

„, , „ ,.,. . ,. joint owners, Georgie and Francesca An- 4" d "«» mel ule nolK)i 0I wno was me

ern States is a small edition of its J B real discoverer where thev are now'

West Indian neighbor. Instead of Wh ' aged ' res P ect 'vely, five and three a.scov eier wne.e they ai e no* .

a bud at the summit, which is much y ears of a S e - The y wer e about to sail

lower (the tree is only about 40 or for Italy with their father, mother and A "CAT STOP" IN THE ORGAN

50 feet high) there are a few inches three brothers and sisters, and not all j n a j jttle town of Maryland re-

of soft white stuff inside the stem the beauty and charm of that far-famed cently, while a funeral service was it

at a certain part, resembling cab- land would have been anything to them being held in a church, the pet cat 2

bage and tasting very much like it. if Willie were left behind. So down the of a family in the place strolled, in

This is eaten with oil and vinegar, p i er trotted Willie, the Antonelli clan the way cats have of strolling, up I

but it is nothing like or as good as having no doubts of his welcome on the into the organ loft. Miss Pussy |

the cabbage of its big brother. A tina _ when the found out the was so struck with what she saw,

The same result follows its extrac- true state of the case there was dismay, that she determined to see even

IZect ^t am ^Z e 7JnZ Z It Box poor Willie up with animals and m ° re = s0 "P the side of the big box J
subject, says. The removal of the * * . she went lightly, unseen by the or- f

fruit kills a trpp whiVh miv Viavo freight, while Georgie and Francesca . & j» »j "» »• «»

iruu Kins a nee wnicn may nave • o ganist or members of the choir,

been a century in growing." It scampered at large outs.de? Leave him When shfi reached the t however,
speaks for itself that not many peo- all by himself for days and days when she ve) . y unexpectedly lost her foot .
pie get a taste of palm cabbage, the other side was reached? It was not j n g ; and down s h e went right into
after alL to be thought of ! the middle of pipes and bellows and

This palmetto of ours used to be But the frantic representations of the all that general disorder that makes
very valuable in the days when f am ii y were of no avail If Willie went the inside of an organ resemble
wooden forts were built, before the t0 Ital wmie must g0 on the Italian nothing more than a carpenter shop
days of monster guns and cannon. Government - s terms> and not the i r s. So struck *>? lightning. Pussy, not
Its wood had the peculiarity of clos- realizing, evidently, how much eas-

ing at once, without a split, when f. ^ s . d f" ded * ^ 1 ier * "»> to get in trouble than to

a ball tore through it, so that the kind neighbor who had come to see them get Qut as . g Qften tJje case ^ tMs
fort was little harmed in the end. oif. Then the trouble began. Georgie quee? . world of Qm . s made no gound

I am sure the next time you have and Francesca immediately started to but se ttled down to either an enjoy-
cabbage on the dinner table you weep; then they wept more and more; ment of the music floating about her
won't be in a hurry, but will stop then they rent the air with such unholy or to a quiet nap. Whatever her

\pril, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

179

motive, there she stayed, without
the faintest me-ow to tell her where-
abouts, and after awhile the church
was left empty and silent, and Pussy
all by her lonesome. Oh, poor
Pussy! For five days did she stay
in that awful organ, for as the
church was a Lutheran one and
opened only on Sunday, nobody
came in and nobody heard her
piteous cries for help.

In the meantime, the people who
belonged to her were in great dis-
tress, hunting her high and low and
offering for her recovery a reward
which set every small boy in the
town estatically dreaming. All to
no avail. Finally, something or
somebody suggested to Mr. Cook-
erly, her master, to go to the church,
remembering it had been open ear-
lier in the week, and what vaga-
bonds pussies in general were. So
he went in, taking with him his dog,
a great chum of Pussy's, who had
shown evident signs of worry at her
disappearance. In vain, Mr. Cook-
erly called and hunted — no Pussy
responded or gladdened his sight.
Too weak and spent to answer his
call, she lay an inert mass at the
bottom of the great pipes. As he
turned discouraged to leave the
building, there was a sudden ex-
plosion of short sharp barks, and
his dog, who had been conducting
a quiet investigation of his own all
around the church, bounded down
the choir stairs, and seizing him by
the coat, pulled at it with all his
might, as if begging him to come
with him. His master lost no time
in following him, up the steps this
time again, although he had pre-
viously searched the gallery. But
Prince had a gift that no man pos-
sesses — his unerring sense of scent
had led him right to the spot where
behind oaken walls his poor little
pal was slowly dying. It wasn't
long before Pussy saw the outside
world again, although so thin and
light was she that her compassion-
ate friend was almost afraid to lift
her.

I am happy to say that Puss is
herself again at present writing. I
imagine, however, she doesn't think
much of organs any more, though
she certainly must of dogs.

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Dear Letter Box:

I read the story Nellie Martin
wrote, and think I can answer the
question at the end of the story.
The "Fisherman's Ring" is a gold
ring with an amethyst in it. When-
ever a Pope dies, the news of his
death is not announced to the world
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P. S. I also send you a story.

Dear Letter Box:

It is a pity if you are so hungry
and have to wait for food. I think
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She's a lucky girl to have traveled
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young girl, isn't she? I would like
to have her chances. Can't you get
her to send you some puzzles, too?
But you mustn't eat them up; give
them to us instead. I agree with our
Editor, Elizabeth Rose, about the
puzzles. There are too many
jumbled letters — everybody seems
struck on them. Why don't they try
other forms? Try, Young Folks. I
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Letter Box, for finding fault, so I
will stop. Yours,

CLEMENT LANE,
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Dear Letter Box:

While reading the February issue
of the Franciscan Herald, I took a
great interest in the Fireside Talks
and Tales. I am only 12 years old
and attend St. Francis' Academy. I
am very interested in writing let-
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please give me an idea what subject
you would prefer me to write on?
I am yours truly,

DOROTHY GOETZINGER,

Dyersville, Iowa.

Dear Letter Box :

I am sorry you are so hungry, I
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while, maybe I can send you some
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BILLY MORTON,
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My First Dose of Salt Water.

A great excitement came to me in
my first trip to Richmond Beach. I
did not know how to swim very well,
but I waded. I got out in water
about up to my neck, and the next
step I was in only up to my knees.
As I was wondering over this
strange thing, suddenly I felt some-
thing go from under my feet. Down
I went, my mouth wide open. I came
up in a little while, my throat full
of salt water. I did not go there
again for awhile, but I soon got tired
wading about and went out to in-
vestigate. I found that a big pile
of sand had been washed up, and
it collapsed with my weight on it.

This is the story of my first dose
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MARGERY EVANS.
The Letter Box Says:

Margery, you deserve praise for
writing so promptly and telling us
about the "Fisherman's Ring." You
haven't all of it just right, but near-
ly so, and you are the first of our
Young Folks to respond. That is a
feather in your cap. You had an
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Clement, keep at other things as
steadily as you do at your puzzles,
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THE PUZZLE CORNER

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—Edith Tinsley, New York City.

What's My Name?

I am a month of the year.
Look close at me and see appear:
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kind;
2 — An opening that was ne'er de-
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4 — Term that is used in every race;
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6— Equality with all the rest;
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By Paul H. Richards

CATHOLIC Poets in America"
is the title of an editorial in
a Catholic weekly paper
which aims to encourage better po-
etry by Catholic writers. The editor
quotes Byron's verses to show that
"there is no lack of amateurish at-
tempts to whip plain thoughts into
plainer verse. . . . Once in a while
an editor is so fortunate as to receive
a bit of real poetry ; like finding a val-
uable casket amid the flotsam and jet-
sam of a vast wreckage — and while
deploring that commercial pursuits
stifled even the spark of real poetic
fire, he advocates definite patron-
age of embryo poets.

The line of encouragement in
such editorial is evidently that of
exciting opposition and drawing
forth contradiction. For example,
Torquato Tasso enjoyed the most
liberal and adequate patronage,
and he was one of the immortal
Catholic bards of Italy. Yet are
not many of our minor Catholic
poets (or verse writers) a greater
national and religious asset than
was Tasso, who wrote his best
verse while in an insane asylum
and who, turning from the avenue
of such service as a poet may give
to religion, set himself to serve the
fancies of a corrupt court which
proved his ruin? Yet the editor's
criticism is wholesome because it
stimulates a searching out of claims
for present Catholic poets; because
it moves readers, who know noth-
ing of what even the "minors" at-
tempt to examine and perhaps to
defend. It argues, moreover, a
high standard and a nice discrim-
ination on the part of the editor,
who would bring back the age of
Dante and his compeers to our
present world. We know, however,
that such excellence is not attained

except through equally high suffer-
ing, unceasing sacrifice and accom-
panying degradation on the part of
at least a portion of the world.
Having had the degradation in some
parts even in this hour, perhaps it
is thus we are entitled to hear a
modern Dante's voice. But listen to
this sonnet by one who claims for
his verse only minor excellence, —
as if in answer to our critic sings
Rev. Dr. Hugh F. Blunt:

To A Minor Poet

There are no Miltons now to thrill

the soul;
So sneer the mighty critics as they

tear
To threads the "versifiers" that

would dare
Indite their thoughts upon the

parchment scroll.
Parchment, forsooth, for petty

rhymes; how droll!
Ye minor poets, see the dust-shelves,

where
Are countless books forgotten, and

beware
Of seeking fame while Milton voices

roll.

Did ever poet sing for thought of

fame?
There were no Milton had young

Milton sealed
His lips because a Shakespeare

once had sung;
So let not pride thy lips to silence

shame.
God signed thee prophet; shalt no

message yield
Because He gave thee Osee's, not

Isaiah's tongue?

Chicago readers easily remember

the name of Charles J. O'Malley,

once editor of The New World, who

invariably used his editorial posi-

182

tion to discover and train new poets.
His method was the most glowing
appreciation of the first timid lines
of song or of meditation, as a par-
ent encourages an infant to walk;
His genius flamed in forms of ap-
preciative criticism of such efforts,
and his success was notable in call-
ing out new poets and authors. The
best of his own fine poems were his
kindly deeds of faith and hope
which went to the making of new
writers. It was the soul of the poet
he searched for rather than the
form of expression, since high ex-
cellence of form without the gold of
sincerity were worthless. If Catho-
lic poetry gains its own place in this
century, this dead poet's hand is
largely in its attainment.

To speak again of biography.
Two books came recently to the re-
viewer's hands, illustrating a cer-
tain contrast in viewpoint. These
were The Life of St. John Berch-
mans by Rev. James J. Daly, S. J.,
and The Story of The Boyhood of
Abraham Lincoln by J. Rogers Gore.
Americans love Abraham Lincoln.
The ravages of super-education and
alien culture have not yet embold-
ened any native American to speak
in disparagement of the martyred
president of the Republic. Where
Washington has been belittled and .
obscured in the "new" American
histories, Lincoln has been left up-
on his pedestal. Yet none of us
have called Abraham Lincoln sainf.
Perhaps it has never occurred to us
that as a hidden saint he may ap- '
pear in eternity among the Blessed
upon whose names we call. We may
say of Lincoln, as of Washington,
and as first of John Brown, "His!
soul is mai-ching on," he still lives,
an immortal memory. Yet, if we
search, we shall see that we rank

April, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

183

him closely among ourselves; we
note his human quality; and we
thrill to see human nature rising,
in the supreme hour, to revelation
of the divine. The Boyhood of
Abraham Lincoln, as the manhood
that we know, reveals the same pre-
destined, wholesome human nature
which history and tradition have
made us love. But read the life of
St. John Berchmans. Few there
are who will find him kindred to
themselves. His goodness was of
another sphere. Despite the natural
itreatment of his present biograph-
er, he does not fall within Lincoln's
class in the minds of readers. He
sis the "saint proper," the saint we
are accustomed to place upon an al-
Itar. Our sons, our brothers might
imitate and follow Abraham Lin-
[col'n, to martyrdom for duty. And
might our sons and brothers also
follow the Saint of the Common-
place, the Saint of Innocence in his
simple routine of duty, and his
peaceful and ordinary ending!

A half-way mark between saint
and sinner, then, — is the popular
view of Washington and Lincoln.
Heroes of the natural rather than
of the supernatural order? Little
we know of their soul's relation
with God.

The appearance of this new and
worthy story, The Boyhood of Abra-
ham Lincoln, may move us to medi-
tate upon the eternal life of our na-
tional heroes; and, as we call more
often upon their memory while as-
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memory and achievement offers in
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wholesome idea of their celestial
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THE PASSING OF WINTER

By E. Brooks Perry

Happiness In

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Religious state, in which a person lives purer, falls
more seldom, rises sooner and dies with confidence;
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The wood is sear,
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ONE bleak November morning,
old Jack Frost awoke from
slumber, yawned dreamily,
rubbed his eyes, peered around, and
then, quite bewildered, soliloquized:

"Dear me! How tired I am of
sleeping! I wonder what the earth
has been doing all this while. Ha!
ha!" boastfully, "I must let it feel
my power again."

Power, indeed ! What power could
he possess — the haggard old fellow,
whose hair on chin and crown were
covered with a silvery rime, and
who, wildly gesticulating with his
skinny arms, vowed to make the
breezes cold and killing. What
power could he possess!

Out he strode into wood and
wold — and lo ! the grass and leaves
turned crimson at his touch. On,
on he went, exultant, shaking on
hill and dale the silvery pellicle
from his hair — on, on he went,
triumphant, fettering the laughing
brooklet and hushing its merry song,
teasing the peaceful flocks and driv-
ing them home to shelter. The
mornings, dull and gray, wore on
into sunless noons; chill and cheer-
less, the evenings made way for
cold and starless nights.

Jack Frost was as jolly as a sand-
boy. A malicious smile played on
his thin and bloodless lips. Here
they come, his boon companions —
howling North Wind and scowling
Storm Cloud. How friendly the
greetings they exchanged! Yes,
they must be up and doing. What
a rollicking time they will have!
Clasping hands, through the wood
they sped and with shrieks of laugh-
ter they shook the trees and snapped

off branches. Into fields and.
gardens they stole and trampled the
flowers in the dust. When they met
a pedestrian in his winter habili-
ments, they boxed his ears till they
were red or threw his hat into the |
street. Even the shivering, home-
less beggar they made the target
of unruly sport. And the children
on the mill-pond and snow-covered
hillside — how rudely Jack Frost and
his partners would pinch their
cheeks and tweak their noses until
they almost cried.

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Wind, and Storm Cloud had a glo-
rious time. Then of a sudden, one
day in March, when the sun was
shining warm and the air was !
bright, their reign of vandalism
came to an end. The roguish and!
boisterous trio stopped short, pulled
long faces, and sulkily slunk away. ,
For lo! from the balmy southland,;
heralded by rich-plumed song-birds,!
Spring appeared, gently smiling.'
Joy was writ on her placid brow and)
words of cheer fell from her rosy|
lips. Gaily she tripped along, flour- 1
ishing her magic wand; and wher-,
ever her mantle touched the earth,
a bright, fresh, green and beautiful;
flower sprang up. In garden and
field and pasture she reigns oncei
more, the bounteous queen; and

Now rings the woodland loud
and long,

The distance makes a lovelier
hue;

And drowned in yonder living
blue,

The lark becomes a sightless
song.

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received information through it. This
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that you send a stamped and addressed
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any information on books, on advertised
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Meier, who has charge, will gladly give
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confident that all our readers will wel-
come the answer to the two following
letters.

Chicago, 111., March 10, 1922.
Special Service Bureau,
FRANCISCAN HERALD,
Chicago, Illinois.
Dear Sir:

The daily papers lately are filled with
accounts of robberies throughout the
country. Only a few days ago we read
that even priests and ministers were at-
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of bonds. This has caused me great worry.
To put ray hard earned money in a sav-
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terest. Could you suggest a safe and prac-
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Dear Sir:

I am desirous of taking a course in nurs-
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Any information concerning a training
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OBITUARY

The charity of our readers is asked for
the following deceased readers of Fran-
ciscan Herald and friends of our missions:

Omaha, Neb. — Fr. Andrew liutz Kueben
O. b\ M.; Quincy, 111. — Bro. Isidore Tretel-
ski, O. F. M.; St. Louis. Mo. — Sr. M. Bern-
adette Forbes; Ellen K. Forbes; Thomas
Forbes; Deceased members of tbe Kenedy,
Forbes, LSreman and Finn families; Mary
Nestle; .Mary Fuze; Thomas Lamb; Doll
Xonss; Mrs. Herold; Washington, Mo.-
Johanna Manhart; Peter A. Brinker; Khza-
beth Schrader; Louis Giles; Davenport, la.
— Mrs. Mulvane; Olpe, Xas. — Antony and
Justina Diebolt; St. Paul, Minn. — Charlel
Jack. Thomas Mitchell; Bridget, Charlel
Thomas, Mary, James and William Clam v;
Seattle, Wash. — J. E. I >oj le; Boring, Ore. —
Charles McGourty; San Francisco, Calif. —
Mrs. Kerr; John Prendergasl : Los Angeles,

Calif. — .Margaret Corbett; Omaha, Nebr

Christina Grieb; Janesville, Wis. — Valen-
tine Bier; George D. Bier; Louis I'arr;
Milwaukee, Wis. — Mrs. L. E. Andrus; An-
tony Jevadil; Wauwatosa, Wis. — Ida Wind-
hauser; New Orleans, La. — Mrs. F. G,
Netzhammer; Indianapolis, Ind. — Wal-
burga Beck; Many Linder; Detroit, Mich.
— Mary Woryalla; Alice Mager; Mrs A.
Weber; Earl Park, Mich. — Thomas Schlut-
tenhofer; Cleveland, Ohio — Mr. Malone;
Edward Holden; Mr. Kinsella; Akron, Ohio
— Mr. Roussert; Thomas J. Martin; Grand I
Rapids, Mich. — Bridget Conway; Port I
Washington, Wis. — John A. Hous; Wheel-
ing, W. Va. — Josephine M. Hoelsche;
Newry, Pa. — Anna McMaster; Philadel-
phia, Pa. — Joseph Reppert; Scranton, Pa.
— Michael. Agnes, Nathan and Anna
Narickas; W. Philadelphia, Pa. — Mr.
Brady; Washington, Ind. — Martin and Ella
Cahill ; Portland, Me. — J. Godfrey; Tren-
ton, N. J. — John Cannon; Auburn,' N. Y.—
Mr. Elger; Utica, N. Y. — Mrs. B. Cardiff!
Whitesboro, N. Y. — Mrs. J. J. McCarthy;
Bronx, N. Y. — Mrs. Catherine Renner;-
Nantucket, Mass. — Joseph L. Sylvia; Dor-
chester, Mass. — Mr. Hayes: Terryville,
Conn. — Mrs. Timothy O'Brien; Brooklyn,
N. Y.— Nora Healy; Chicago, 111.— R. J.;
Healv; Anna Koegler: Charles Kitt; Cath-
erine Brose; Mrs. M. Motz; .Mrs .V.
Gauer; P. J. Hogan; Bridget Morrissey;
Josephine Gittler; Warren Calkin.

LET US PRAY— We beseech Thee.i
therefore, assist the souls still suffering!
in purgatory, whom Thou hast redeemed
with Thy Precious Blood.

INTENTIONS

The following intentions are recom-
mended to the pious prayers of our
readers:

For yocations to the religious state (26a
For candidates to the Franciscan I >nl,r.
For the cure of an invalid soldier (5). Fon
the cure of goiter trouble (5). For thel
cure of a crippled child. For the cure o£|
a sore limb (10). For better health (1S1
For a safe delivery. (">> For the conversion!
of relatives and friends. (30). For the con-'
version of parents (10). For cure from]
the drink habit (10). For success for a!
boy in the navy. For success at wan
(15). For success in an operation. For
relief in eye trouble. For success in
temporal affairs (15). For success in spir-
itual affairs. For success in an invest-
ment (5). For the successful outcome of
a trial. For suitable employment (20).
For a better position (15). For good ten-
ants. For a £0od home (5). For the
profitable sale of property (3). For recon-
ciliation in a family (6). For the grace of
perseverance (10). For success in a char-
itable undertaking. For the recovery of
lost memory. For a happy death (10).
For strength to follow a religious voca-j
tion (2). For the prevention of an un-
happy engagement (5). In thanksgiving
to the Sacred Heart. For special intentions
(10). For the poor souls in purgatory.
For the spread of the Third Order. For
our Holy Father, Pius XI. In Thanksgiv-
ing for favors received (25).

LET US PBAY— Let the ears of Thy
mercy. O Lord, be open to the prayers of
Thy suppliants; and that Thou mayest
grant them their desires, make them ask
such things as please Thee, through Jesus
Christ our Lord Amen.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We are concluding herewith the list begun in the February issue
of the kind benefactors who so generously remembered our poor Indian
Missions during the Holy Season.

MINNESOTA — Brownsville! M. A. L.;
Buchman: A. \\\ ; Caledonia: P. S.; Cbls-
holm: J. L.; Faribault: J. McIj.; Goodhue:
J. Y.; OraceviUe: J. F.: Delavan: R. D.;
Hibbing-: T. L.; Lake Elms: J. K. ; Min-
neapolis: M. H. Q'B., L. R., M. C C. F. F„

F. C, G. H., H. M. K., G. L. L.. M. A. B.,
W. F. E., L. A. S., E. S. P., M. H. OB.,
J. C, O. K., J. W., M. B.. B. S., C. B.;

L Nortbfield: F. H. ; Owatonna: J. S. ; Rose-
, mont: M. B. ; St. Paul: M. K. M., P. J.
1 G. Jr., A. N. B„ C. O'B., M. S., C. S.,
W. K., J., F. M., C. S., A. A. B„ A. K„
K. W., J. H., L. C. C, M. L. F., G. N. G.,
Q. M. O'C, C. L. K., S. G S., L. J. L.,
I P. N. H., E. S., P. H. K., E. H. M., M.
E. M., J. S., A. P. C, P. F., D. D. M.,
M. K., C. R. T„ A. F., S. W., A. L., M. K.,
A. L. G., J. E., E. M., A. A. S„ P. H.,
M. R., L. S., R. E., V. K., W. R., M. L. F.,
W. H., J. J. McD., W. M. G.; South Park:
M. R.: Winona: M. G.; Stillwater: W. W.,
V. W.

MISSOURI— Affton: C. V.; Chamois: A.
S.; Chandler: S. C. R.; Chlllicothe: V. S.,

D. F. S., O. S., J. E. S„ C. T., J. S.; De
Soto: L. R., E. R. E. R.; Ferguson: F. H.;
Kansas City: M. B., M. A. E., J. F. K.;
Kirk wood: J. G. B.; Krahow: A. H.; Old
Monroe: F. H. ; Pine lawn: M. K. ; Silez:
A. D. N. ; St. Charles: M. U. ; St. Genevieve:
L. S. Y.; St. Joseph: Mr. L. K., M. S„ W.
H. W.j Mosevis Mills: H. H. L.; St. Louis:
R. G, V. T., M. S., M. J. McC, C. H., J. H.,
M. R., McM. M., C. F., G. M.. K. S.,
M. A., A. M. A. R., J. D., W. H. A., W. J.
T., F. E„ F. H., J. P. H., K. H., M. A. A.,
C. S., G. E., M. K., G. S., A. D.. M. J.,
L. S.. H. S. U., L. S., M. E„ F. W. R. F. Y.,
M. B., H. E. M., M. P., M. T., T. E. Z.,

G. K. W., C. B„ M. R. L., M. M., G. D„
C. !_.., G. G. ; Union: A. D. ; Washing-fcon:
Wm. F. H., J. H. M.; WestphaUa: H. A. B.

NIW HAMPSHIRE— Dover: E. A. D,
T. M.; Franklin: A. L.; Manchester: M. F.,
M. E. L., M. O. L., E. J. C, D. D., M. E. C,
M. McS., J. J. W.; Nashua: J. T.; Laconia;
T. J. Mel.

NEW JERSEY — Bayonne: E. K. M. C;
Eordentown: K. T. ; Camden: E. L. R.;
CUoucester City: J. W., J. H., McN.;'
Hobokus: C. K.; Eoboken: M. B.; Irving-
ton: J. S.; Jersey City: M. M., J. P. C,

E. G.. G. T., N. J., L. W., C. O'C, J. W„
A. V. D., M.' McK„ M. B., A. S.. E. J. M.,
M. K., K. H., A., A. M. W., C. L., T. G.,
L. A. B.; Jersey City: J. J. H., M. Y. K. B.,
N. J., W. A. K. ; Kearney: B. F. ; Keyport:
M. M.; Idttle Perry: P. C; Lodi: N. J.,
P. De Y.; Newark: A. H., C. J. M., M. G.,
C. M., S. M. H., F. R., M. G., T. E. M. G,

F. D. N. ; Berg-en: J. B. ; New Brunswick:
W. J. M.; Passaic: C. H; Norristown:
E. C; Oaklyn: H. C. M.; Newark: J. F.;
Bahway: E. N. V.; Bed Bank: W. I.;
Spring- Lake: J. W., F. T. ; Trenton: U. J.,
H. M.. W. D. H., N. J.. J. S., V. S., G. G.,
W. S. D., M. L., H. F.; Walling-ton : W. S.;
Weehawkin: M. B., E. W.; West New
York: E. P., J. A. D.; Woodcliffe: P. P.

NEBRASKA — Bladen: F. S. : Blue Hill:
A. K. ; Lindsay: Rev. J. K.; Martell: D.
S. S.; Omaha: J. A. G., A. E. R., F. A. M.,
J. S., C. N.; Wynot: Dr. J. H. W.;
Humphrey: E. S.

NEW YORK— New York City: A. O'C,
N. H., R. R., N. C, P. M., M. C, D. C,
L. E., T. S., F. M., A. D.. Mrs. Q. M. G.,
M. D., J. R., M. F., M. B., L. N.. M. Q.,
M. McC, C. A., N. C, J. A. B., Mrs. S.,
M. F, C. M., M. E., H. C, A. T. F D.,

A. McG., E. V., A. O'C, M. C, C. H.,
R. O'C, M. C. B., J. C, E. G., E. F., G. N.,
K. W., M. C, M. N., C F. J. F., K. O'N.,
M. C, E. D., K. K„ B. D., M. K., C A. H.,

B. R., A. D., J. M. J., E. B., C A., M. W.,

E. H.. E. M. B., M. Q., A. L., M. P.. F. A.,

F. W. S„ C. D.. E. L,., C M., T. S., B. M.,
A Mother, T. A. T., R. H., M. F., J. O'H.,
C McG, C D., M. C. M. G., J. O., A. B.,
J. D., S. S„ M. O'N., D. J. M., H. F., K. S.,

K. M., G. G., P., M. F., M. D., C M..
C. B., M. B., A Friend, J., J. L. C, S. B.,
M. R., E. H., J. B„ K. M„ A. L., N. O'S..
M. T., J. R. Sr., A. L., N. M., M. S., S. C. S.,
M. A. G., M. M. M., M. R„ M. M., M. F.,
S. C, S., M. J., A. L. B., F. X. McL., N. C,
K. D.; Albany: G. T.; Albion: M. J.; Au-
burn: P. J. H.. J. McD.; Bay Shore: B. H.
K.; Bellmore: S. S., H. A. C. ; Blng-hamton:
J. S., J. A. McD.; Brooklyn: J. R., A. K..
A. M. G, V. B., T. B„ T. R., C. W., R. L..
J. R., Mrs. D., R. F, A. H., S. C, J. C,
I. M., J. S., C S., M. R. S., McD., S. C.
C. B„ L. D., H. M.. F. J. H., A R., F. J. S.,
J. H. O'H., A. S., K. S., C. R., B. M., C. C,
S. O., F. M. K., F. J. G., E. A., C. C, S. O.,
F. M. K., F. J., G. J., J. C, E. A., J. W..
J. K., E. E. S., R. S., J. J. C. R., C. C,
M. K„ E. D., M. N., A. M., E. H„ C B.,
C. T., K. T., M. G., M. K., A. S., M. E. M.,

E. T., E. A. R., J. S., M. M., J. S., A. F.,

F. R., F. Z., C. F., J. J. D., A. G., N. McD.,
M. McC, C L., N. F. M., J. C, E. C.
J. D., C .C, J. S., J. S., S. S., M. E„ H.
M. D., J. L., E. C ; Brewster: F. G. ;
Batavia: L. M. C.J Babylon: M. D.; Buf-
falo: M. B., J. J. M., J. O'K., H. M„ D. M..
W. F. F., L. S„ M. T., H. F„ M. K., E. A.
K„ A. F, M. P., W. A., M. C. F„ F. G.,
L,. S., F. B. D., M. IL, P. P. D., N. S.,
E. D., N. W., E. D., N. W., E. D„ B. W.,
K. H. G., N. M., G. E„ V. A., B. K., M. H.,
•T. A. B., W. C H„ P. P. C, F. R. B.,
P. L., J. M., C R., M. Z., G. K.; Cohoes:
N. Y., J. H, H. S.; CoUeg-e Point: M. K. F.;
Corfu: N. P. M.; Canandaigna : S. V.; Coro-
na: S. J. C. ; East Bloomfield: D. R. D.;
Ellens ville: A. S.; Coldwater: G. R.; Elm-
hurst: A. M. K. ; Elmira: T. F. L. : Endi-
cott: M. K. ; Evergreen: M. S.; Par Rock-
away: F. W., C D. S.; Floral Park: M. G.;
Pt. Wadsworth: St. P. O., C H„ P. B.;
Geneva: J. D. L.. E. M„ K. C. C, N. L.;
Huntington: H. C. S.; Hempstead: A. F.-
Jamaica: A. E., W. Z. ; Jamestown: M. E.
M.; Johnston City: E. H., J. C; Ithaca:
T. S., T. G.; Lackawanna: A. J.; Liberty:
J. D.; Livonia Center: C P. L. ; Lock-
port: E. G., I. B., M. B., T. N. J., M. S.;
Long- Island City: L. G.. A. J. E., W. P. S.;
Lynbrook: H. C B.; Marcellus: T. J. S.;
Naspeth: J. W., A. B.; Martinsville: J. D.;
Middletown: M. B.; Middle ViUag-e: M.'K.;
Mineoia: W.; Newburg-h: E. T>., E. J. D.,
N. G. C; New BocheUe: C. B., M. D., J. C;
Niagrara PaUs: F. M. S.. M. McC, M. A.
W.; Nyack: M. M.; Felham Bay: E. McN.;
Pt. Richmond: P. H. B.; Perkinsville: A.
A., T. A.; Pompey: A. H.; Foug-hkeepsie:
M. C, R. E., O'H., D. W.; Queens: W. S.;
Bichmond Hill: A. B. ; Rochester: B. F„
P. C. F. M., J. H. R., C E. K., M. J.,
A. t. K., M. G., S. F„ C C, S. H. L.,
H. L. L,., E. F., McV., H. K„ F. N. C H.,
E. K., Mr. P., K. M. R., H. L. L„ J. N.,

E. B., G. C M., E. M„ P. D., C. C; Bock-
away Beach: H. F. ; Bockville Center:
P. J. S. ; Bosebank: S. J. P.; Buby: L. L..
M. H.; Salamanca: A. G. ; Saranac Lake:
W. E.; Scarborough: M. M.; Schenectady:
M. K.; Staten Island: L. F. ; Syracuse: G.
& F. W., M. P., Mr. D., C G., M. S., C B..

F. W. W., H., E. H., T. U. O. N., C B.,
M. F.. W. B., F. B., G. F. W.; Seneca:
N. McS.; Tompkinsville: K. C; Troy: D.

C, A. A., A. R. M. McD., G. G.; TJtica:
J. M., A. A.. J. K., C M. C; Valatie:
J. N. ; Wapplngers: A. McS.; Wayland:
F. F. ; Woodhaven: C. E., M. M., J. W. ;
Wellsville: H. D.; Werdsport: C. R.

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OHIO— Akron: C R.; BeUaire: J. G. Z.;
Berea: J. S.; Canton: R. R. ; Cincinnati:
L. L., R. M. T., M. D„ R. P., F. C. K.,
J. S., S. J. D., F. A., L. B. K., C. P., K. J.
R., M. F. M.. E. & A. G„ M. H„ G. C,
M. K.. T. G., J. F., F. R., F. C, S. H.,
K. W., B. C, T. M., M. L., C W., G. B„
C M., A. H., F. H., H. Z., G. H., B. C,
H. W„ C M. K., A. H., W. W.; Cleveland:
J. H, C. S., C P., L. H. B.. M. C, A. B.,

D. C, Q. B., L. O., H. K., M. M. C, N. C,

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J. F. O. II.. F. J. R„ A. D„ A. M„ A. B..
J. L. D., M. S.. S. S., A. P., M. D.. L. J.
K„ C. P., E. B., A. B., K. C. C, P. ,C„
M. C, M. M.. L. M. B„ H. B., D. I... G.
T. E„ M. K., E. Q., M. I„ L. M. B„ R. McG.,
B. K„ J. McG., It. -M.; Dayton: A. II., A. H .;
East Liverpool: .1. <>., M. M„ J. \V .. R. M.,
W. O'C.; Fremont: H. B„ H. N. J.. H. X. J.;
Hamilton: M. B., M. G.; Hubbard: M. H. :
Lakewood: E. B. W„ C. K.. E. I>., A. B.;
Martins Perry: M. M.: Masury: X. E. G.;
Middletown: M. S.; New Washing-ton: J.
K.; Niles A. W.; Norwood: M. A, ('. B..
M. T.. A. \V„ M. A ; Osgood: A. R.; St.
Bernard: L. K., J. 1..: South Wertown:
A T : Steubenville : M. B .; Toledo: L M„
B It. P V.. M. B., W. K., P. V„ M. McG.,
M A. G., F. M. B., A. J. B ; Van Wert:
Yv". J. C; Warrensville : C. K.; -West Park:
T A W., X. R N.; Youngstown:
J. D. B.

OREGON — Heppner: M. O'C; Hunting-
ton: L B.; Klamath Palls: E. J. M.; Med-
ford: B G. S. ; Pendleton: G F. ; Portland:
M A., C. C, B. J., F. S„ M. A. P., D, V. B„
G. J. S., M. S., C. D. B. W. J., H. I* S„
E E., E. H.; Tillamock: J. J. W.i Umatilla:
W. E. P.; Park Place: S. R. A.

OKLAHOMA — Ponca City: F. C. G. ;
Pawnee: L. C.

PENNSYLVANIA — Allvale: P.P., M. P.:
Altoona: T. T., P. L., J. LI., C. E„ F. M. S.;
Ardmore: P. L.; Belief onte: E. T. S.; Ash-
land: J. M.; Bedford: E. G.; Braddock:
E C L ; Bristol: J. K.; Butler: N. McJ...
V\ v A D., H. M„ R. S. D.; Carnegie: F. J.
S Brownsville: J. F. L.; Clarion: V. H.;
Conshohocken: C; II . ; Connellsville: A. L.;
Carrolltown: P. S.; Du Bois: Wm. S.,
W S ; EdwardsvUle: M. P., M. R.; Erie:
A. A„ E. E., H. M.; Eynon: M. S.; Exeter
Pittston: A. D.; Penelton: M. K., H. J. G ;
Prankford: R. J. L.: Qermantown: M. M„
I S E G . D. C. S .; Harriman: H. B.:
Johnstown: McH., E. J. L,.; Hawley: R. E.;
Hazelwood: M, B.; Jersey Shore: J. F. B .:
Kingston: M. I. M„ T. F.; Harrisburg: A.
E„ McC; Kittanning: E. M. G.; Knoxville:
T F. C ; Lancaster: E. A. G., V\ . H. K .
E A G , E. A. G.; Le Monte: C. II.; Larks-
ville': M. M.; Lock Haven: V. G„ V. G .;
McConnellstown: A. C. J.; Mountain Top:
E .1. B.; McKeesport: E. S.; Mahanoy
City: T. K.. J. C. J. E. A.; Mt. Oliver:
M D: North Braddock: M. B ; Oil City:
S.'R.; McK., B. M. C, K. L.. O'S.: Over-
brook: A M.; PerryvUle: T. M. I! : P« lla -
delphia: B. T., M. B., M. T . J. M., F. S..
A. \V .. P. J. R-. C. J. J., H. P.. P. E. G.,
\ M B, T. J. T.. M. C. C. S., X. B.,
B G M. I)., B. McC. M. McG.. C. C.
K M J W., B. Met:.. H. U M. T., R. S..
K. Q G. A. D. B. McS„ J. I.MT, D„
\ C. A. S. M., C. E. B., A. K W. W.,
C E M C , A B W, J. H. Ck K.I'
.1 C, B. K., M. G.. R. McL,., M. S., W J.
- M. S., M. McC, J. J. I- M. I

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VIRGINIA— Alexandria: I II I ; Nor-
folk: J. F, McG.; Richmond: 11 U . E.
C. W. E. S.; Phoebius: M R.. S K.

WEST VXBOINTA — Clarksburg: M. <M
Warwood Wheeling: C. M. C; WTieellng:
J. S. T., L. K., M. K. C, C. S., A I;.
J. B., .1. P.

WASHINGTON — Bremerton: A. .7. X.:
Anacortes: E. B. R.; Castle Rock: t '. V.
It; Chehalis: W. E. P.: Chewelah: s I
I)., J. K. D.; Clarkston: II. II. X . Everett:
J. L., G. W. S.; Hoquiam: T. Im G .; East
Stanwood: J. T. H.j Mt. Vernon: J. T. !
Goldendale: F. J. C, N. M. F. ; Olympia:
A. W.; Port Orchard: G. S.; Port Town-
send: L. '/..: Puyallup: C. I.. R., J 1 1
Reardan: P. W.; Republic: \V. T., Of.;
Spokane: J. H., P. C. N., B. S., E. J.
S. .7. B.. J. W., McR.; Seattle: M R. s.
C, R. D. M., T. G„ J. D., J. W., S, A. R,
M. C. ; Sumner: C P. W.; Toppenlsh: ,M.
H. I'.: Tacoma: D. J. B., J. W. R.. A. I. s.,
K. M. B., J. M. B., G. B., R. M.. J. W K.:
TJniontown: M. E. T.; Walla Walla: II II.:
Yakima: E. L., X. C, II L. R ; Wenatchee:
C. McD.

WASHINGTON, D. C. — M. H., G. J„
McD., R. V. M.. J. B., H. J. C. M. A., A. E.,
X. F., M. C, II. J. T„ E. V. D.. X. H,
M. A. H., M. N., F. W., E. H ; Brookland:!
M. A., McG., M E. G., K. H.. S. T.
K. H.. M. E. G, M. M.

WISCONSIN — Appleton: A. H. S . W. K.,
G. J. M., C. F. R. S., .1. c ; Ashland: F R„
M. A.. C. F., E. D. L. M., M. M.; AnUgo:
P. J. P., K. S., J. P.. C. J. A. C; Arcadia:

A. M.J Barton: J. H.; Burlington: M. Z„ ■
E. S.; Cedarburg: C G.; Columbus: \V.
McC, A. G ; Cadott: F. J. S.; Denmark: F.
l: H: Dodgeville: R M, Eau Claire:
J. M, A C; Edgar: L. H. M.; Pranklln:
II i: ; Pranksville : H. B.; GeneBee Depot:
E. P.; Eagle River: E M.; Greenleaf:

B. C. M. C; Custer: N. K. ; Hartford:
\V. II., A. B ; East Troy: 1^. C; Junction:
H. K.; Kenosha: C. K.. Kimberly: M. J. '
V.; Lyndon: D. E. L.: Klevenville: K. D.;
Little Chute: J. X. M.; Madison: M C.
.1. T. J.: J. L. B.; G. F. D.: J. T. J.; Mar-
inette: P. W., J. F. T... L. J. L.. F. J. U; '
Milwaukee: R. S., W. J.. McG., M. R.

A. K., T. B., T. O.. A. T.. M. D„ M. O'D.
W. K„ R. S., M. E.. M. S., A. N„ A. J. S.
S. M. A., F. A. V., F. J., A. S., A. W„ .7. P.,

B. L., A. F„ J. S., N. \V. ; Mondovi: .1. M.
No. Pond du Lac: E. O'B.; Mosinee: .1. B.;
Niagara: T>. H ; Oconomowoc: H F.,
R, M.; Oshkosh: P. II. S. P.; Phillips:
M. K„ S C. M ; Port Endeavor: 7.. .7. G.;
Rubicon: M C : Sheboygan: G. P... 7. B.;
Sparta: < ; J. S.: Rice Lake: A. J. H„
.7 S ; Stevens Point: M. IT.; Superior: P. J.,
.1. P. P.. 7' X. V .; Templeton: M. \Y. . Tom-
ahawk: V E L.; Waterloo: A. P. : Wau-
sau: M. K ; W. C. M.; M. K.; Waunaukee:
.7 7! ; Wauwautosa: J. R : West Allis: ■
S : Wyoming: J S ; West Bend: K. A M.;
.1 O.

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Mr?> ; Portage: 7. M. E. T. K.; Potts-
ville: J.' A. hTv. G„ J. B.; *°™?™, :
\ V S ■ Pricedale: T S.; Reading: .1 II.
K M )■• . K, M., A. K.; Ridge way : M. J.
E "; Roxborough: M G.i Scottdale: M. A.
M. ; Scranton: .1. S„ I. McN., M . M.. G. R.
<;.. K. K. B., M. M ; Sewickley C. H.,
Shawmond: J. M. B: Shamokin: C_ H.
Shenandoah: A. D„ A. D„ B. W., South
Bethlehem: M. A., CVR.I Spangler: S. F .
Tarentum: K. P.! Upper Darby: A. H.,
Trucksville: W. P. G-j Throop: R V.,
II E- Warren: J A; Wilkes Barre: A\ .
A P "J P F \ T„ .1. K., E. K.; Wilkins-
burg: J D. O. H. B.: Wyoming: S. J.i
Wllliamsport: K. A. S ; White Mills: J. B.
RHODE ISLAND— Bristol: M F., A. b..
Centerdale: M. P .: Central Palls: C F..
Cranston: M. M .: Newport: T B., J. MR
O E B.; Norwood: J. T. K.: Oakland
Beach: M. A. T.; Pascoag: M. « .. J. B;
Pawtucket: K. M.. G. H, M. It. M M„
K M M E H., M. McG., .7. F. K., G. I-.,
f'H C, M. McG., H. C. M.. M. S.; Phenix:
P E' T Providence: M. McG., K. F, M. S.,
MR, M. T„ E. B.. H.. F. M„ A. F.
B. 77. M. S.; Woonsocket: M. B., P rt.,

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El Paso: E. P. „

TENNESSEE — Nashville: M. T.
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(Continued from page 174)
stitches used are: French knot,
darning, and long and short, and the
design is stamped on a handsome
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simplifying the embroidery is also
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This is but a venture on the part
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(Continued from page 161)

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Italy. — Though not yet fifty years
have elapsed since the founding of their
Congregation, the Franciscan Mission-
ary Sisters of Mary are already 4,000
in number, distributed over 120 mission-
ary establishments. The heroic zeal
and indomitable energy of these daugh-
ters of St. Francis is reaping untold
fruits in the missions of India, Africa,
Japan, Ceylon, Mozambique, Madeira,
and Zululand. In these, they have
charge of, and spend the best years of
their lives in, hospitals and dispen-
saries, leper houses, orphanages, and
foundling homes, in workshops and
schools. Two members of the Congre-
gation are now on the list for eventual
beatification ; namely, its foundress,
Ven. Sr. Mary of the Passion; and Ven.
Sr. Anna Maria Antigo.

Spain. — The Spanish-American Royal
Academy of Arts and Sciences, with
headquarters in Cadiz, Spain, has
named a Franciscan, Fr, Gregory Lopez
de Vicuna, its special correspondent.
The learned friar made many valuable
contributions to the history of Spain.

Morocco, Africa. — The French Fran-
ciscans, engaged in missionary work in
Morocco, have now supplied a long-felt
want by launching the publication of
a monthly review of Catholic activity
in those regions of northern Africa. It
is to be known as "Le Maroc Catholique"
(Catholic Morocco).

The Congo, Africa. — It was among
the warlike and indomitable Ngbandi
tribe in 1911, that the Capuchin
Friars began missionary labors on the
Congo, in Africa. From their four
headquarters at Banzyville, Abumom-
bazi, Molegbe, and Libenge, the zealous
friars penetrated into the wild regions.
Their efforts were crowned with re-
markable success. While in the first
year the converts numbered only 39,
their number by the end of 1920 reached
the grand total of 3,467.

Subotica, Jugo-Slavia. — The Third
Order in Subotica, Jugo-Slavia, dates
back to the year 1729. It was, as the
records show, in a most flourishing con-
dition till the time of Emperor Joseph
II, who, true to his anti-clerical policy
and autocratic methods, wantonly sup-
pressed all Tertiary fraternities in his
empire. In 1882, during another period

of dire persecution, the Order was again
suppressed. Of late, however, the an-
cient fraternity of Subotica was reor-
ganized. At present, it numbers 600
members and is very active in the field
of Christian charity and of the Catholic
press. Regarding the latter, it may be
noted that where only a few years ago
Catholic publications numbered in all
but 200 subscribers, they have today
already over 2,000, which fact must in
great part be ascribed to the efforts of
the members of the Third Order in the
city.

Cologne, Germany. — His Eminence
Cardinal Schulte, Archbishop of Co-
logne, has appointed the Franciscan Fr.
Jerome Spettmann, professor of history
of philosophy at the Institute of Philos-
ophy which is affiliated with the Uni-
versity of Cologne.

Holland. — Recently, a number of
Franciscan Sisters, whose motherhouse
is at Veghel, Holland, departed for the
missions in Borneo.

Bohemia. — Following are the official
statistics regarding the numerical ex-
pansion of the Third Order in Bohemia,
Moravia, and Silesia: Bohemia, 81 fra-
ternities with 11,260 Tertiaries; Mora-
via, 127 fraternities with 16,942 Ter-
tiaries; Silesia, 12 fraternities with
7,000 Tertiaries. Hence the grand total
for these three countries is 220 fra-
ternities with a membership of 35,202.

British East India. — About two
months ago, five Capuchin friars of the
Belgian Province arrived in Punjab,
British East India, to take up mission-
ary work among the natives.

Tarata, Bolivia. — The Franciscan mis-
sionaries of the College of St. Joseph,
in Tarata, Bolivia, conduct seven flour-
ishing missions among the Guarayos,
Yuracares, Guayochos, and Sirionos.
The last-named tribe live on the Rio
Blanco (White River). It was only
lately that the Fathers were able to
begin missionary work among them.
These much-feared Indians are nomads.
They always proved very troublesome
to the white settlers, chiefly on account
of the mistreatment they were sub-
jected to as a result of the slave trade.
We may add that these Bolivian mis-
sions are in charge of the Tyrolese

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Franciscans. Last year, within thi
short space of two weeks, they los
through death two of their ablest mis
sionaries, FF. John Felix Jenewein an<
Januarius Scherer. The latter had beet
active for forty-four years among th<
Indians of Bolivia.

Brazil. — The Capuchin Friars of tht
Umbrian Province in Italy are evange
lizing the Upper Solimoes, in Brazil
Recently they elected the first perma-
nent church in these vast and largelj
unexplored regions, to eommemorata
the tenth anniversary of their arrival
there.

Quincy, 111. — The piano recital given
at the Quincy College Auditorium, on
February 21, by Josef Lhevinne, famous
Russian pianist, was the last of a trilogjn
of musical attractions during the win.-]
ter. The recital was in every respectj
a grand success, each number winning!
the hearty applause of the thousand]
music-lovers in the audience.

The number of professed members of
the College Third Order fraternity wasj
swelled by the profession, on February]
12, of nineteen novices. At the regular*
monthly business meeting, our student)
Tertiaries were given an interesting
and instructive lecture by Fr. Benice,
O. F. M., director of the local city fra-i
ternity.

The* St. Elizabeth fraternity of the)|
Third Order in this city met for the:
first time at the Quincy College Audi-
torium, on December 18, 1921. During;
the meeting, officers were elected and,
important business matters discussed.
Following this, the Rev. Director. Fr.
Benice, O. F. M., gave an interesting-
address. There is great promise of real
interest and progress of the Third Or-
der in this community.

Gratz, Austria. — At the Interna-
tional Catholic Conference of the Young
Men's League, held recently in Gratz,
Austria, delegates were present from
Germany, France, Holland, Italy, Jugo-
slavia, Austria, Poland, Switzerland,
Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. On this
occasion, the Rt. Rev. Count Majlath,
Bishop of Siebenbuergen, was elected
protector of the League. He is known
and esteemed not only as a warm friend
of the young people but also as an en-
thusiastic promoter of the Third Order,
of which he prides himself in being a
member.

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A monthly magazine edited and published by the Friars Minor of the Sacred Heart Province in the interests of the
Third Order and of the Franciscan Missions.

Volume X

May, 1922

Number 5

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CONTENTS

EDITORIALS
Our Mission Picture — The Month of May —
Fray Garces Club — Suppose You Were Starv-
ing — Looking Forward 195

THIRD ORDER DEPARTMENT

Chats with Tertiaries 198

By Fr. Giles, O. F. M.
Eliza Allen Starr, Tertiary 200

By Annette S. Driscoll
A Brief for True Humility 204

By Agnes Modesta

MISSIONS

Pioneer Days in Superior, Wisconsin 206

By Fr. Odoric, O. F. M., Missionary

A Double Tercentenary 208

By Fr. Francis Borgia Steck, O. F. M.

FICTION

For Basil's Sake 211

By Marian Nesbitt
A Romance of Mission Days 216

By Henrietta Eugenie Delamare

IN THE INTEREST OF WOMEN 217

By Grace Keon

FIRESIDE TALKS AND TALES 224

By Elizabeth Rose

MISCELLANEOUS

The Chronicles of America 230

By Fr. Francis Borgia Steck, O. F. M.

The Smile Corner 236

By Josh Wink

FRANCISCAN NEWS 237

Our Mission Picture

San Gabriel Mission — famous in song and story —
was dedicated to the Archangel of that name on Sep-
tember 8, 1771. Of the nine missions founded during
the presidency of Fr. Junipero Serra, this was the only
one at whose erection he was not present. The first
year of its existence was filled out with repeated scan-
dals between lawless soldiers and outraged Indians;
with worry, discouragement, and open insults for the
two missionaries assigned, FF. Cambon and Somera;
and with unavailing complaints to Comandante Pedro
Fages. But brighter days came, days of spiritual and
material prosperity, after Fr. Serra's journey to Mexico
and interview with Viceroy BucarelL San Gabriel
counted 1,136 living neophytes in 1800, which number
twenty years later had increased to 1,636. By 1832,
the records showed that 7,614 Indians had received the
sacrament of Baptism. It was at this flourishing mis-
sion that viticulture was first introduced into Cali-
fornia. The old grape vine, still thriving in the mis-
sion garden, tourists find an object worth seeing. All
that remains of the original buildings is the church
with its famous bells, those bells that inspired more
than one poet like Bret Hart with song as he stood
there listening to their silvery chimes and recalling
how the Indians of old would heed their summons and
gather to the church to worship their Maker. The
church, which was completed in the early part of the
nineteenth century, measures 140 feet in length, 27
feet in width, and 30 feet in height. The museum with
its many valuable relics of mission days at San Gabriel
is a veritable treasure trove of California history;
while the library with its many volumes, bound in pig
skin richly decorated with thumb marks, evidence the
fact that the friars of old were not only of dauntless
zeal and practical sense but also of profound and ex-
tensive learning.

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The Month of May

IT is very consoling and encouraging to note that
the devotion to Mary, the Queen of May, is be-
coming more and more popular with our Catho-
lic people. Both young and old find happiness and
response in singing her praises. The purpose of
Holy Church in dedicating this entire mor.-'.th to the
special veneration of the Mother of God is full of
significance and instruction.

Of all the months of the year, May more than any
other serves as a constant reminder of Mary's sub-
lime prerogatives. During this favored month, the
rays of the sun, which in summer are dreaded on
account of their scorching heat, serve but to make
the hills and valleys, the fields and woods more re-
splendent in their refreshing and undefiled spring-
time beauty. Myriads of flowers and blossoms with
their riot of color and design, fill the air with their
fragrance; while the birds and insects seem to vie
with one another in singing the praises of the
Creator. All this reminds us forcibly of our Blessed
Lady. Her whole life was flooded with rays of di-
vine grace that served but to enhance the beauty
of those blossoms and fruits of virtue that adorned
her soul, diffusing throughout the world the sweet
odor of sanctity, while her heart poured forth in a
never-ending Magnificat the praises of her Creator.
Chosen from eternity to be the Mother of the Re-
deemed, Mary came into this world free from the
stain of original sin. She alone of the descendants
of Adam was never subject for even an instant to the
power of Satan. Immaculate she came forth from the
creative hand of God and immaculate she returned
to Him when her earthly pilgrimage was ended.
As the Virgin of virgins, she is the object of our
highest admiration and loving veneration.

It is significant, too, that the month of May always
includes a portion of the Easter season, often the
greater part of it. To no one was the Resurrection
of our Savior an occasion of greater joy than to His
Blessed Mother. She had shared the ignominy and
bitterness of His Passion and she was justly privi-
leged to share the joy and triumph of His Resurrec-
tion. "Mary, too, has her Easter," says one of her
devout clients, "her time of triumph and glory." It
is for this reason that the month of May is dedicated
to her that she may receive her just share in her
Son's reward. May follows Veak winter and the
harsh winds and rain of March and April as Easter
follows Lent and somber Passion-tide. It is the
morning of gladness succeeding the night of weep-
ing. The very face of nature reflects the joyous

Easter spirit of the Church. Our Lord is abroad im
the world, glorious in His Resurrection, and
Mary His Mother, who suffered with Him and for'
Him, is sharing with Him the loving homage of a 1
grateful creation.

As the month of May entices us from our homes!)
to enjoy Mother Nature in the great outdoors, re-
splendent there in all her springtime beauty and!
freshness, so does Mary by the sweetness and heav-|
enly charm of her life, lift us from this lowly world!
to the sublime heights of heaven, there to bask
throughout a never-ending eternity in the dazzling)]
brilliancy of God's uncreated, infinite beauty.

Fray Garces Club

WHEN speaking of our American Indians, Catho-1
lies usually picture the. neophytes as semi-savagel
or at least as very far removed from our plane of civilM
zation. While this is true in some cases, in others it
is far from the reality. In fact, while most of the Mis-1
sion Indians are extremely poor, they are industrious^
and law-abiding, and many of them, thanks to the
strenuous efforts of the missionaries and school sisters,!
are forging ahead and compare favorably with their
white brothers and sisters. This is true especially of J
the Pima and Papago tribes in southwestern Arizona,'
where the Franciscan Fathers have charge of thm
missions. Taught to irrigate the soil, they are fasti
turning the arid wastes into fertile fields and meadows, J
and many of them are very successful in stock raising.;!
A large number of the children from the mission and']
government schools flock to the cities to seek employ*!
ment for which their education has fitted them. Lest I
their former pupils fall an easy prey to the dangers!
lurking on all sides in the larger cities, the mission*]
aries endeavor in various ways to keep in touch withl
them. A notable instance of this kind is a club that!
has only recently been established in Phoenix. It J
already boasts a membership of some thirty-five Indian]
girls. Its chief aim is to afford the members profitable 1 ]
recreation during their leisure hours. Thus it strives]
to interest them in reading and spreading the Catho- 1
lie press. Among the most popular publications with]
the members, the missionary mentioned the Daily '
American Tribune, The Indian Sentinel, and Francis-]
can Herald. Music also is one of the favorite pastimes,
special attention being devoted to sacred hymns. The
religious element, while not predominant, is sufficiently f
in evidence to make the club a real Catholic organi-
zation. Three times a year, on Christmas, Easter, and !
the feast of St. Francis Xavier, the members receive
Holy Communion in a body; and when a member is :

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May, 1922

FRANCISCAN HERALD

197

palled by death, the Club attends the funeral and has
ithree Masses offered for the repose of her soul. The
.|Club has been named in honor of the heroic and uni-
versally esteemed Franciscan missionary, Fray Garces,
who was cruelly murdered during an uprising of the
Yuma Indians, on July 17, 1781.

We are giving special prominence to this Club in
the hope that other missionaries will take up the idea
and thus continue to exercise their beneficent influence
Dver the youthful Indians during the trying years that
follow their dismissal from school.

Suppose You Were Starving!

THE most distressful country in Europe to-day is
AUSTRIA. The once great agricultural lands that
[formed Austria-Hungary have been torn from her and
she lies prostrate like a mangled, dismembered torso —
a land that cannot live and cannot die.
! Here is a tell-tale extract from the letter of a priest :
■Our yearly salary, now 50,000 crowns (4.50), and a
suit of clothes costs 200,000 crowns, a pair of shoes
20,000, a shirt 10,000, a loaf of bread 700, a cup of
feoffee 500 crowns. Were I to buy just a frugal break-
fast and a newspaper every day, to do so I should have
to have ten times my year's salary."
I A pound of meat costs 1,000 crowns, a pound of flour
J320, and an egg from 120 to 150 crowns.
I A physician writes : "We operate in a room scarcely
cheated; to provide heat for sick-wards of the hospital
i is out of question. The food which we give our pa-
tients is only half cooked and altogether insufficient . .
, ( . . . . When will God have pity and deliver us from all
Ithese woes?"

I What can these poor mortals do? If brotherly love
,iWill not reach out a helping hand, they must simply
istarve and perish.

I Two dollars will keep a human life from starvation
for two months.

The farcical value of a crown renders it impossible
|for the government to purchase the means of life from
(abroad.

| The horrible sufferings, specially of our children,
piay be pictured from the latest figures given out by
(the Board of Health of Vienna: — 96 per cent of the
Ichildren of Vienna are undernourished, tubercular, or
in danger of this dread disease.

I Our Sisters of Charity, cheerless, disheartened,
ijwearied almost to death, are straining every nerve to
ijhelp the poor sufferers. But confronted with impos-
sible prices, a large number of their houses of charity
lare today facing bankruptcy.

How the unfortunate Austrians manage to exist on
what they are pleased to call nourishment, is indeed a
puzzle.

Not to speak of its quality — the word is a mockery —
jtwenty per cent of a loaf of bread is pulverized tree-
bark. The quantity of food which an unhappy Austrian
lis given in a week, is less than an American has at a
isingle meal.

] Donations for the hungry people of Austria may be
isent to us or directly to Baroness Elise Von Rast or
JRev. John Egger, 165 East 88th Street, New York City.

Looking Forward

WE are no longer asking our Catholic people to
show interest in what has for years been called
the "social question." For most Catholic societies, all
Catholic papers, many priests and directors of sodali-
ties, of Holy Name organizations, etc., often now dis
cuss social topics for the benefit of their members and
readers.

Organization the Need of the Hour

But is this enough? What avail is it if individuals,
or even members of certain Catholic societies, show
genuine interest in these questions, but do not trans-
late their generous resolutions into action? Some-
times these well-meaning Catholics do not even succeed
in getting their views before the people at large, much
less do they reach legislatures, about to pass some par-
ticularly dangerous and ill-advised piece of social legis-
lation.

We Need "Centres of Teaching, of Propaganda and So-
cial Organization"

Not only do we need "organization," which Cardi-
nal Faulhaber called "the greatest force in the social
life of the present time." We also need what Pope
Pius X describes as "Centres of Teaching, of Propa-
ganda and Social Organization" — rallying points for
our forces, arsenals whence to draw sound information
in the days of hot discussion, schools for the prepara-
tion of well-equipped leaders, depots for the dissemi-
nation of solid social doctrines, meeting-places for
our lecturers and teachers of Catholic social science.

Such an institution, founded by the Central Verein
in 1909, is the Central Bureau at St. Louis, which
Archbishop Glennon has aptly called a "Central So-
cial Service Shop."

Members of Hierarchy Endorse "Central Bureau" of
St. Louis

His Grace, Archbishop Glennon, used this phrase in
commending the splendid work in Catholic Social Ser-
vice of the Central Bureau. But he also pleads for the
endowment of the Bureau. He wrote on January 21,
1922, as follows : .

"I am heartily in favor of and subscribe to the proposition
you have in view, namely, to adequately endow the Central
Bureau of the Central Verein."

Soon other hearty endorsements of the "endowment
plan" were gladly given by other members of the Hier-
archy.

Rt. Rev. Joseph Chartrand, Bishop of Indianapolis,
declared :

"I am glad to have the opportunity of saying a word of
much-deserved praise and strongest encouragement to the
Central Bureau of the Central Verein in favor of its great
and growing work."

These are expressions of forward-looking men. They
realize their duty of preparing their flocks for the new
social order that is now emerging out of the strife and
upheaval of the last half -century. Shall we not imitate
them and help to strengthen the work of the Central
Bureau of the C. V., which in the words of Archbishop
Glennon is "one of the most useful and practical agen-
cies of the church and Catholic society?"

C. B. of C. V.

CHATS WITH TERTI ARIES

By Fr. Giles, O. F. M.

IN these days of equal rights for
men and women, I must confess
that I am somewhat timid about
speaking on the second paragraph of
Chapter First of the Third Order
Rule. If my audience were composed
only of men, I would be very bold,
knowing that what I said would have
their hearty approval. But unfor-
tunately for me and my theme, I see
a very generous sprinkling of wom-
en and young ladies in the gathering
about me and I am afraid to begin.
However, I can honestly plead "not
guilty" to the charge of having
placed this regulation in the Terti-
ary Rule and I feel confident that the
one who is responsible for it — our
Seraphic Father St. Francis — is
quite capable of defending himself
regarding the matter.

"But what is the offending para-
graph?" I hear in treble voices on
all sides. Well, I thought you might
not wish to hear it and that we
could pass it over in silence. Since
the feminine portion of my audience,
however, quite true to form! — is de-
termined to know what it is all about,
I will satisfy their curiosity — ahem!
that is, their laudable thirst for en-
lightment — and give the passage in
full : "Married women are not to be
admitted without the knowledge of
their husbands ; if it is thought neces-
sary to act otherwise, it should be
done only on the motion of the priest
who is the judge of their conscience."

There ! the bomb has been ex-
ploded, but as I fail to notice any
fatalities, I suppose it is safe for me
to continue.

Now, why did St. Francis insert
this particular regulation in the Rule
of his Third Order? To be truth-
ful, the only reason I know is that
he was one of those good old-fash-
ioned Christians like St. Paul, who
writes in his Fpistle to the Ephes-

ians: "The husband is the head of
the wife, as Christ is the head of
the Church. Therefore, as the Church
is subject to Christ, so also let wives
be to their husbands in all things"
(Eph. 5, 23, 24). You see, friends,
St. Francis established his Third
Order to bring back peace and hap-
piness to a world distracted by na-
tional, civil, and domestic dissen-
sions. As public order and civic vir-
tue have their mainstay in the well
regulated family, St. Francis natu-
rally strove first to heal the domestic
wounds, assured that it would then
be an easy matter to cure the ills of
society.

Without passing juagment one way
or another on the so-called women's
rights of our day, every well instruct-
ed Catholic knows that when St. Paul
speaks about the proper relation of
man and wife, he is speaking in the
name of God. Hence, when St. Fran-
cis emphasizes this same domestic
relation in his Third Order Rule, he
is but treading in the footsteps of the
Apostle.

Friends, there is something ex-
ceedingly noble and holy in the mar-
riage ties as established by God the
Creator. St. Paul, while placing the
state of virginity above that of mat-
rimony, is filled, nevertheless, with
admiration for the latter and calls
it a "great Sacrament," symbolizing,
as it does, the wonderful union that
binds Christ with His mystical
spouse the Church. Owing to the
frailty of the human heart, matri-
mony fell in the course of centuries
from the high pedestal on which the
Creator had placed it in Paradise.
Christ restored it to its original dig-
nity and elevated it even to the rank
and sanctity of a Sacrament, making
it a continuous channel of grace.
As the world continues to recede
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Christ, it is gradually receding alsc|
more and more from His heavenly
doctrines and commandments. Onf-
of the saddest manifestations of thisl
forgetfulness of Christ is the grow-»
ing disregard among our separated!
brethren for the sacred ties of matri-(l
mony. Nor are we Catholics entirely!
blameless in this respect. Living asjj
we do surrounded on all sides by ourjl
non-Catholic neighbors, we are onlyi
too prone to view matters in the light;
of their belief. That the members:]
of the Third Order, whom St. Fran-
cis wished to be the very salt of the!
earth, might be duly protected)]
against the dangers that threaten!
our modern family life, St. Francis?]
enjoins upon them anew the com- 1
mand that is the very cornerstone of j
domestic happiness — due subordina-
tion of the wife to her husband.
Hence, although he desired nothing
more than that mothers of families
should enroll themselves under his
Tertiary banner, he did not want
them to take this important step
without first consulting their hus-
bands and without having due re-
gard to their wishes in the matter.
For how could Francis hope to reap)
the fruits of peace in the family if he
began by sowing the seeds of discord
between husband and wife? He rea-
lized that, although a woman could
do nothing better than become ,a
Tertiary, there might be cases where
her husband would feel fully justi-
fied in opposing this step. Rather
than disrupt their happy home, Fran-
cis decided that it would be better
policy to bide his time, confident that
opinions often change and trusting
in God's loving Providence to secure
both husband and wife for his Order.
One of the principal arguments ad-
vanced by the apostles of equal rights
for women is that woman is neither
by nature nor by grace inferior to

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•.man. This argument, unhappily for
■those who advance It, falls to the
Iground by its own weight. No one
I claims that woman is inferior to
I man. But there is a world of differ-
ence in being inferior to him and in
jibeing subject to him as a wife to
1 her husband; and granting man's
(perfect equality or even his inferior-
ity to woman both in the order of na-
[ture and of grace, this need not pre-
[ elude his superiority to her in rank.
} Look at the Holy Family at Nazareth
I — that supreme model of every Chris-
tian family. He who was the least
[.gifted both naturally and supernatur-
lially, was placed by God Himself at
fits head — Joseph, the carpenter. On
[the other hand, He who humanly
[speaking should have been the least,
[but Who infinitely excelled both His
jimother and foster father,
liheld the last place in that

lhappy home — the Christ

Child, the Son of God

made man. As there was

'absolutely no degradation
[in this humble subjection

of Jesus and Mary to Jo-
liseph, so there is nothing
^humiliating in the loving

subordination of a wife
[and mother, however gift-
led, to her lawful hus-
Lband. On the contrary,
lit raises her immeasur-

lably in the sight of both

,God and man.

! Ah, friends, it was not
(lack of courtesy on the
(part of the knightly Fran-
icis that led him to stress
ilthis point in the Tertiary
■Rule. It was his holy
Kreverence for those who
bare destined by the be-
Inign Creator to stimulate
■all that is highest and no-
flblest in the heart of man

by reproducing in them-
selves either the virginal

or marital life of their

august Sister, Mary, the

Mother of God. Never

did the heart of son beat

with truer love for the

woman who gave him

birth than did the heart

of Francis for Pica, his

saintly mother. Never

did a purer love exist be-
tween brother and sister

than the affection that

bound together as one the heart of
Francis and his sister in Christ
Jesus, the gentle St. Clare. This
high regard for womanhood that
filled the heart of their Father, has
been a characteristic mark of all
his true sons of the First and Third
Order. St. Louis IX never under-
took anything of importance in mat-
ters of State without first consult-
ing his illustrious mother, Blanche
of Castile; and when he quit his
kingdom to wrest the holy places
from the hands of the Turk, he
deemed her best qualified to govern
it during his ldng absence. St.
Elzear, one of the most lovable
saints of the Third Order, who was
singled out by his sovereign for the
most difficult diplomatic negotia-
tions, had his saintly consort, Bl.

The Espousals of St. Elizabeth

Delphina, always at his side as his
best adviser and safest counselor.
You see, my friends, it was Fran-
cis's knightly respect for woman-
hood and his deep concern for the
welfare of the family that induced
him to require of married women
the consent of their husbands be-
fore admitting them to his Third
Order. On the other hand he real-
ized only too well that in isolated
cases the husband's refusal would
be wholly unreasonable, and hence
undeserving of consideration. For
these instances, he makes an excep-
tion and allows such women to be-
come Tertiaries, provided their
Father Confessor, after carefully
weighing the matter, gives his con-
sent. Naturally, if a married wom-
an is thus admitted without the
knowledge of her hus-
band she is not obliged
to fulfill those regula-
tions of the Rule that can
not be observed without
divulging her member-
ship. It is not possible
to determine in general
just which portions of the
Rule are of the nature,
since what obtains in one
case may cause no diffi-
culty in another. Hence,
such women should lay
their individual difficul-
ties in observing the Rule
before their Rev. Director
and should abide by his
decision.

Most frequently, the
objection of the husband
to his wife's joining the
Third Order arises from
his ignorance of its na-
ture and obligations. Need-
less to say, none of the
mutual duties and rights
of wife and husband,
mother and father of a
family, are in the least
affected by membership
in the Third Order. On
the contrary, Tertiaries
are urged to be most exact
and zealous in the observ-
ance of all these, that
both the primary and
secondary aims of matri-
mony as established by
God might be attained in
all their perfection. Hence
it is not only absurd but

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May, 192:

even libelous to assert that the
Third Order forbids its members
to marry or that it at least prefers
to see them remain single. If this
were the case, why did Holy Church
choose as the special patrons of the
Third Order the father and mother
of families — St. Louis IX of France
and St. Elizabeth of Hungary, and
not St. Elzear of Sabran and his
virginal spouse, Bl. Delphina?

Well, friends, I think this will
suffice for to-day. I must confess
that I do feel better than when I
began. I am glad that you listened
so patiently and did not interrupt
me with all kinds of questions and
comments. Really, I had the floor
practically to myself all the while.
Thanks! But there is one thing
that I can not deny the feminine
members of my audience. They may
have the last word on this subject.
And while they are having it, I shall
slip quietly away until next month.

ELIZA ALLEN STARR, TERTIARY

By Annette S. Driscoll

ST. FRANCIS'S CONVERSION

It was thus that the Lord granted
to me, Brother Francis, to begin my
repentance; for when I was in sin
it seemed very bitter to me to look
upon lepers; but the Lord Himself
brought me among them, and I showed
them kindness. And as I withdrew
from among them, that which used to
seem to me bitter was turned into
sweetness of soul and body. And not
long afterwards I came out from the
world.

And the Lord granted me such
trust in (His) churches that I used
simply to pray in these words: "We
worship Thee, most holy Lord Jesus
Christ, here and at all Thy churches
which are in all the world, and we
bless Thee for that Thou hast re-
deemed the world by Thy holy Cross."

Afterwards the Lord granted me,
and still grants me, (to put) such
trust in the priests who live accord-
ing to the form of the Holy Roman
Church, by reason of their Orders,
that if they persecute me I will be-
take me to them. And if I had as
great wisdom as Solomon had, and
were to find ipoor priests of this
world in the parish churches where
they abide, I would not preach
against their will. And I will fear,
love, and honour them and all other
priests as my lords; nor will I heed
sin in them, because I discern the
Son of God in them, and they are
my lords. — Testameyitum S. Francisci
(Opusc. 104).

EYE hath not seen, nor ear
heard, nor hath it entered
into the heart of man, what
God has prepared for those who
love Him."

Surely this chosen soul was one
of "those who love Him."

Endowed by nature and training
with an extraordinary perception
and appreciation of beauty in its
loftiest forms, with what rapture
must she have gazed about her when
she stepped across the threshold
of this world into the mansion made
ready for her amid the glories of
the Holy City, the New Jerusalem

Born in 1824, in the historic town
of Deerfield, Massachusetts, her per-
sonality and her history were full of
interest. Dr. Comfort Starr, the
founder of the family, came to Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, from Eng-
land, in 1634. His son, the Rev.
Comfort Starr, was graduated from
Harvard, in 1647; and was one of
the five original Fellows named in
the college charter, 1655.

On the maternal side she was a
descendant of the "Aliens of the
Bar," who "distinguished them-
selves in field and council" during
the colonial history of Deerfield,
from the time of King Philip's War.
Her great grandfather, Samuel
Allen, died while defending his
family from the Indians, at the
Deerfield massacre, where one of his
daughters was tomahawked and a
young boy of the family was carried
captive to Canada, to be returned
later by an Indian woman.

From her parents, Miss Starr in-
herited her love of literature and
grew up in an atmosphere of culture
and refinement. She attended the
old Deerfield Acadamy, representa-
tive of a society well versed in the
finer things of life and capable of
furnishing the intellectual and ar-
tistic inspiration which prepared
Eliza for her life work.

When thirteen years old she went
to Boston to study, remaining till
1845. Thereupon she opened a
studio; but finding the climate un-
favorable, she went to Brooklyn and
later to Philadelphia. She subse-
quently accepted a position as

teacher in the family of a wealth}',!
planter in Natchez, Mississippi, anci
then returned to Brooklyn asi
teacher of drawing in a boarding;!
school. Meantime, great things,)
were going on in her soul.

Born and bred a Unitarian, she!
attended a sermon preached in Bos-i
ton Music Hall by Theodore Parker.k
one of the most eminent of Unitank
rian divines. This it was that caused!*
the first weakening of her faith inl
Unitarian tenets.

In 1848, she went to Philadelphia*
and here met a Catholic relative,)
Professor George Allen of the Uni-J
versity of Pennsylvania, and also*
Archbishop Kenrick, who fostered*
and strengthened the Catholic im-J
pulses which were stirring in herl
heart. Still, it required nine yearsl
to bring her into the visible palel
of the Church.

She was received by Bishop Fitz-j
Patrick of Boston, December 3,1
1854, and three weeks later, on]
Christmas day, she received her first
Holy Communion. What this step
meant of misunderstanding and
humiliation at that period can only
be guessed at now; but she accepted
her new-found faith with a joy
and enthusiasm that, as in the case |
of all true converts, only increased |
with the years. At the same time {
she found new outlets for her tem-
perament and tastes, in the study of
Christian Art, to which she devoted ;
her later life.

At the very beginning of her
knowledge of Catholics as individ-
uals, she encountered the stumbling
block of that indifference to the real
use and meaning of the best things
of life which "make the judicious
grieve." As a reverend choir di-
rector once said, "We have the great
musical masterpieces, we have all
the traditions, we have the talent
and ability; but if we wish to hear
one of our own great masterpieces
rendered adequately, we must go to
a non-Catholic organization to hear
it produced."

Would that the army of Tertiaries
in this country could bring about a
much needed change!

Miss Starr perceived among

I May, 1922

Catholics far too slight an ac-
quaintance with their great herit-
age; while non-Catholics displayed
(greater appreciation of artistic
i merits, but were blind as to their
Fimeaning. She was able not only to
'appreciate the beauty, but to sym-
pathize with and consequently to
! interpret to the world in a most
'jconvincing way the symbolic mean-
ing of it all. Add to this profound
! 'knowledge of and spiritual insight
■(into her great subject, a splendid
icommand of English and a charm
• 'of manner due to the "spir-
I : itual magnetism of her coun-
tenance, the kindling of her
jeye," etc., and we can form
| some idea of what a power
(for good she has been.

In 1856 she went to Chi-
Icago, where she was much
! loved and admired as a teach-
jer of drawing and painting.
She has left many examples
i of her own skill and received
j from the World's Fair judges
I the only gold medal awarded
I to any art exhibit. She also
i ( made the illustrations for
I her own beautiful books.

In 1875 she visited Europe
i with her nephew, William W.
Starr, a gifted sculptor. She
| spent a year in Rome and
i visited many other scenes as-
|i sociated with the memory of
saintly deeds which she de-
scribed and illustrated in her
I "Pilgrims and Shrines."

In 1877, in Chicago, she
began her course of 80 lec-
tures on Christian art, and
I thereafter traveled all over
the United States, giving
j this course, which embraces
[ the whole history of Christian art,
I using photographs which she brought
| with her from Europe, and to which
j she made an addition every year.

The first lectures were on the
| Catacombs. In these lectures she
! speaks of the Roman Campagna as
| "that prairie with a story of more
i than 2000 years."

"And as we stand a moment at the
; head of the long stairway and cull
a few rose buds, even in January,
; from bushes that overhang the open-
\ ing, we look around us to realize
for the moment at least, that under
[this fair campagna, under these
smiling vineyards, lie, in their nar-

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row beds, an army of the living God,
whose resting places, as Leo the
Great so beautifully said, 'encircle
the Eternal City with a halo of
martyrdom.' "

Another most interesting topic
was "The Likeness of Our Lord."
She believes that some one of our
Lord's disciples may have limned
the Divine features, and shows that
all pictures from the walls of the
Catacombs to pictures of artists of
later centuries follow the apprdved
model: wine colored hair floating off

into curls on the shoulders, pointed
beard, beautiful oval face, deep and
tenderly sad blue eyes. The King of
Edessa is said to have procured a
likeness ; then there are the pictures
sketched by St. Peter, those traced
to St. Luke, and wonderful mosaics,
even down to the Last Supper.
Veronica's napkin, also, is made to
form another link in her chain of
evidence.

There is also a valuable lecture
on the Byzantine period, called the
Decline of Art, which bridges, the
lapse between the earliest ages of
Christian Art and its revival by
Cimabue, Duccio and Giotto. These

201

first broke away from the severe
formal treatment of the Byzantine
period, "under the all powerful and
inspiring influence upon life, morals,
and especially art, caused by the he-
roic and holy life of St. Francis of
Assisi." The deep fascination which
the life of St. Francis exercised
over Giotto influenced all his work.
The allegories of Obedience, Pov-
erty, and Chastity which he painted
on the three arches over the tomb
of St. Francis are fine examples of
this reverence.

One writer claims that
Miss Starr's treatment of
Giotto as an architect, who
designed the Campanilo of
the Cathedral of Santa Ma-
ria del Fiore, is the most fas-
cinating example of her work.
Having heard this lecture at
Notre Dame University, the
Very Rev. Edward Sorin, late
Superior General of the Or-
der of the Holy Cross, said,
"I have passed through Flor-
ence thirty-eight times and
every time I visited Giotto's
Tower, but until I heard this
lecture I never knew any-
thing about it."

Much of the work of sculp-
tors, architects and painters
would be unappreciated but
for interpreters like Miss
Starr. "How many of us
would have thoroughly ap-
preciated Turner, but for a
Ruskin? How many have
gazed on Giotto's Tower or
II Duomo, and not understood
them until interpreted by the
gentle, spiritualized woman,
who has studied them with
the breadth of life of culture,
and the purity of a mind refined by
faith and prayer?"

Her keen spiritual insight is
shown in her saying that "Fra
Angelico painted for nothing except
to save souls."

And so she continues through all
the artists up to modern times. She
calls the Sistine Madonna the in-
spired Madonna.

Miss Starr was pre-eminently a
teacher, expounder, and interpreter
whose authority can not be ques-
tioned. Leading the fullest of lives,
when not praying, teaching or lec-
turing, she was writing; and be-
sides her splendid treatises on art,

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May. \9X\

pacity is Pythagoras, the father ol
Greek philosophy, who, upon merely'
hearing of the immortality of thf

she wrote also beautiful lyrics. Her without price.' And it also promises of this world we may live, and witr
first book on Patron Saints she to re-link that mystical chain of liv- a wider understanding also, of th<
dedicated 'to the iaithful youth of ing tradition, without which the capacity of the human mind foi
the Catholic church, to whose inter- most admired works of art lose their comprehending, or, at least accept
ests I am proud to devote my life." life. ing truths which are often supposec

"Poetry, art, and the saints most "For, what are the w o r 1 d - to be incomprehensible,
engaged her pen. More delicate renowned frescoes in the church of "A notable instance of this "--
moods and sentiments of soul found St. Francis of Assisi, above or be
beautiful expression in poetry; the low, without the story of St. Fran
truths and lessons of religion in cis himself?"

Christian Art; beauty of Christian At the entrance to her home in soul, left the arena and the plaudit
character in the lives of the saints. Chicago, which she piously named of the multitude, to give himself tc
In this varied expression of the st Joseph's cottage and which was the study of the highest truths;
beautiful is seen the underlying a veritable art museum, (although while so many who have come intc
unity ot her work. at the great Chicago fire in 1776 the inheritance of supernatural

Even on a bed of pain she called she lost not only her home but many revelation concerning this immoN
for her pen; and when she could no art treasures), was a fine statue of tality, declare themselves incapable
longer use it, she dictated her St. Joseph made by her nephew. of receiving it."
thoughts to others. "She was cruci- In her later years she became her Following is a list of the writings
fied to her pen, it was said at her own publisher and nothing but the of Miss Starr:
U " era " . best and most artistic work was Patron Saints, in two volumes

The following from Pilgrims and allowed to go out. It is related that with fifty-three etchings by the au-
Skrines clearly shows the underlying on one occasion a piece of work had thor, from original drawings-
motive of all her work: been set up by the printer. On fin d-

"We often hear people speak of ing that some of the type was brok-
the 'magnificent Liturgy of the en, she immediately paid for the
church,' the dramatic grandeur of work and ordered it to be destroyed,
her ceremonies, with a vague, gen- and taken to another printer,
eral sort of praise; while they take The crown of her life work was

no pains to follow this Liturgy on her beautiful Three Keys to the natura, a folio volume, illustrated by
the great solemnities, and no trouble Camera della Segnatura in the Vati- Raphael's four ceiling and four wall
to understand the manifold and can. She sent a copy of this, bound pictures, in the Vatican, Rome;
most delicate symbolism of the cere- in white muslin and lettered in gold, The Seven Dolors of the Virgin Mary,
monies they profess to admire. The to the Pope, who examined it with
sublime intention of the Liturgy, great interest and sent her in re-
its claim upon our love and our ven- turn an exquisite cameo of the Im-
eration can never be understood un- maculate Conception.

less it is studied .... But this T he Three Keys is an explanation at home and abroad, by prelate,
Liturgy, whose every day Dominus f the wonderful frescoes by Ra- P riest > and layman. The Archbishop
Vobiscum dates back to St. Clement, phael in the Vatican. In the intro- of Milwa ukee, Most Rev. Sebastian
Pope and martyr, his martyrdom duction to this really remarkable G - Messmer, D. D., in a letter to one
closing the year 100 of the Christian book sne says . "How many stand interested in her work, wrote as
era, whose Reproaches on Good Fri- be f re these pictures in the Vatican follows:

y ^ V6 ^u ! 6d at CoMtMrttaflpli without recognizing more than a « MrB F Doniat
in the 5th century; whose office for fe W prominent personages, and
Corpus Christi was given as an in- without any clear idea of the in-
spiration to a Thomas Aquinas, em- tention of the artist in their ar-
bodies in the lessons and homilies of rangement; the story of the human "Madam:
its offices the choicest poetry and mind and the grand march of in . Herewith I gladly recommend
the ripest learning of 1800 years. tellect through all ages, so wonder- your efforts in spreading the works

"The neglect of the Liturgy fully set forth in them, being, in written by our dear departed friend,
among the educated classes, can consequence, wholly or almost lost. Miss Eliza Allen Starr. Her works
alone account for the, at present, And this, simply from never having ought to be found in the library-
singular barrenness of poetic and had the hand laid on the clue which no matter how small— of every
artistic inspirations, while the leads them through the labyrinths Catholic interested in Catholic Art.
stress laid upon the recitation of of these three delightful realms of I consider it a duty of educated
the Liturgy whenever it is possible mind, of heart, of imagination— to American Catholic's to be ac-

would seem to indicate look forth, when emerging from quainted with these beautiful

a return to these 'fountains of liv- them on the world, present and ac- works, so full of the sweetness and
ing water' from which the rich and tual, with a keener perception of fragrance of true Christian Art,
the poor, the learned and the ignor- the possibilities for development written by the only American Catho-
ant, may draw 'without money and which are with us in whatever age lie author upon a subject on which

Songs of a lift-time;

Isabella of Castile, illustrated ;

What We See, a book for children;

Christmas-tide;

Three Keys to the Camera Della Sea-

The Three Archangels and the (iuar-
dian Angels in Art.

The services of Miss Starr to art
and religion were long recognized,

Huron Street,
Chicago, 111.

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FRANCISCAN HERALD

203

English Catholic literature is very
poor. I wish you all success in
your efforts.

"Sincerely yours,
S. G. Messmer, Archbishop."

On one occasion, a testimonial
and handsome purse were presented
to Miss Starr from Catholics all
over the country, and she was also
the recipient of many beautiful
medals. In 1885, she received the
Laetare Medal from Notre Dame, the
first of her sex to have this honor.

A human being is a combination
of body, mind and heart, and the
finding of beauty in any one of these
parts is a cause of joy. To judge
from the photographs of her, Miss
Starr had a countenance very pleas-
ing to the eye; her mind was cer-
tainly of the highest type; but her
goul surpassed them both in beauty.

Without doubt she was a pious
soul even before she was brought
into the bosom of the true Church —
for, while faith is a pure gift of God,
it is usually bestowed upon a seeker
after truth. When Miss Starr be-
came a Catholic, she became and
ever remained a loyal, practical, and
fervent one; and when, on May 17,
^1885, she was received into the
. Third Order at St. Peter's Church,
'Chicago, by the Rev. Augustine Mc-
Clory, 0. F. M., and professed by
ithe same, on November 21, 1886, she
was, for the rest of her days, an
ardent and edifying Tertiary, going
i every morning to attend the Holy
Sacrifice and to nourish her soul at
the Divine Banquet, and every day
reciting the Office.
' Her charity was ever extended to
the unfortunate, and no appeal to
her for a worthy cause was ever
made in vain. She practiced that
still higher charity which prompts
one to say only kind things of
others. She was incapable of jeal-
ousy, was sympathetic and devoted
to family and friends, and showed
forth in her own life the saintly
traits she liked to point out in
others.

When living on State St., Chicago,
near the Cathedral of the Holy
Name with but few houses inter-
vening, she was able, at all hours
of the day and night, to see the
sanctuary lamp flickering before the
altar. (May it not well be, that
some of the appeal of this ruddy

little sentinel of our Lord is lost
since the introduction of an exag-
gerated number of red lights to
adorn (?) our altars, sometimes so
profuse as to be suggestive rather
of danger signals than of the Divine
Presence?)

To her dear friend, Sister Stan-
islaus, now a golden jubilarian of
St. Francis Convent, Joliet, (who
possesses some of her original lec-
tures and pictures) she said: "Dear
Sister, behold the wonderful privi-
lege I enjoy, to live so close to Our
dear Lord in the Holy Eucharist
and to be ever reminded of His pres-
ence by the glow of the sanctuary
lamp, even in my home." It was at
this window, kneeling in the direc-
tion of the tabernacle, that she
spent an hour every day in prayer
and meditation.

"With desolation," says Holy
Writ, "with desolation is the land
made desolate, because there is no
one who thinketh in his heart."

How would the world of ours be
changed, should we all follow her
beautiful example of daily medita-
tion and daily Communion. And this
thought should come with special
force to all Tertiaries, as being in
line with the wishes of their sweet
and holy founder and of the Church
in all time, voiced especially by that
illustrious Tertiary, the late Pius
X, the Pope of the Blessed Sacra-
ment.

Also, it is quite too early for any
to have forgotten the resolution so
strongly recommended by the Hon.
Bourke Cockran at the National Ter-
tiary Convention, last October; that
all Tertiaries should daily visit the
Blessed Sacrament, and if possible
daily receive the Bread of the
strong.

When Miss Starr died, at Durand,
Illinois, in 1901, her beautiful, life
was the theme of eulogy on all sides,
and Protestants were accustomed
to ask, "Will she not be canonized?"

Who can say? But meantime,
thank God for the uncanonized
saints around us, and for even
slight knowledge of their lovely
lives, so refreshingly and consoling-
ly opposed to the records of crime
and folly kept constantly before our
eyes by the lurid headlines — if we
go no further — of our secular dail-
ies.

THIRD ORDER CALENDAR

3. Solemnity of St. Joseph (Plen.
Ind.)

11. BB. Julian, Ladislaus and Vival-
dus, Confessors of I and HI Orders.

13. St Peter de Regalado, Confes-
sor of the I Order. (Plen. Ind.)

14. Bl. Petronilla, Virgin of II Order.

17. St. Paschal Baylon, Confessor of
the I Order.

18. St. Felix of Cantalicio, Confes-
sor of the I Order Cap. (Plen. Ind.)

19. St. Ives, Confessor of the III
Order, (Plen. Ind.)

20. St. Bernardine of Siena, Con-
fessor of the I Order. (Plen. Ind.)

21. BB. Theophilus, Crispin and
Benvenutus, Confessors of the I and III
Orders. (Plen. Ind.)

22. Trinity Sunday. (Gen. Absol.—
Plen. Ind.) BB. John Forest, John and
Peter, Martyrs of the I Order.

23. BB. Bartholomew and Gerard,
Confessors of the I and III Orders; Bl.
Humiliana, Widow of the III Order.

24. Bl. John, Martyr of the I Order.

25. Ascension of Our Lord (Gen.
Absol.— Plen. Ind.)

26. Dedication of the Basilica of As-
sisi. — Bl. Mary Anne of Jesus, Virgin of
the III Order. (Plen. Ind.)

29. BB. Stephen and Raymond,
Martyrs of the I Order.

30. St. Ferdinand, Confessor of the
HI Order. (Plen. Ind.)

31. St. Angela Merici, Virgin of the
III Order. (Plen. Ind.)

Besides the days indicated above, Ter-
tiaries can gain a Plenary Indulgence:

1. Every Tuesday, if, after Confes-
sion and Holy Communion, they visit a
church of the First or Second Order or
of the Third Order Regular of St. Fran-
cis while the Bl. Sacrament is exposed
and there pray for the intention of the
Pope. If Tertiaries live at a great dis-
tance from a Franciscan church, they
may visit their own parish church.

2. Once every month, on any suitable
day. Conditions: Confession, Commun-
ion, visit to any church, and some pray-
ers there for the intention of the Pope.

3. On the day of the monthly meet-
ing. Conditions: Confession, Commun-
ion, visit to any church, and some pray-
ers there for the intention of the Pope.

General Absolution, also called Indul-
genced Blessing, can be received by Ter-
tiaries on May 25. This Absolution may
be imparted to Tertiaries also in the
confessional on the day preceding this
feast or on the feast itself or on any
day during the week following.

A BRIEF FOR TRUE HUMILITY

By Agnes Modesta

HUMILITY is probably one of The owner of that interloper which a Frankenstein, for I am sure tha
the most misused and mis- masquerades as humility, assures tne few will disagree with me when
understood words in the world that she is an ugly creature, a assert that the* purveyors of fals
modern vocabulary. Say it of any- thoroughly sinful creature, that she humility are not only extraordinaril;
one, and the picture involuntarily need never expect to become even unpleasant to live around, but that ii
arises in our minds of a sort of moderately good and pleasing to God, the last analysis they are in con
Uriah Heep rubbing ingratiating as is Sister-So-and-So. She is not stant danger of spiritual harm fron
hands and assuring all with whom possessed of any of the graces and a pride that is a killing blight to th
he comes in contact that he is " 'urn- virtues that fall to the lot of Miss soul.

ble." I think that the Heeps in their Some-body-else across the way, and "Well," one says sulkily, "whai
hypocrisy and villiany have gone far she is, in short, in a pretty bad way does she call true humility?"
toward bringing the word and with so far as her hope of reaching any Dear Sister Modern - Catholic !
it the virtue itself, into a false light eminence, either here or hereafter, is Woman, it isn't what / call it thai
in the eyes of the modern world, concerned. But she is grateful none I should expect to have any weigh"
For humility is a virtue. We have the less, for thank God, she is " 'urn- with you, but that which is set be]
the word of Him who said "Learn of ble." fore us as the ideal of true humilitu

Me because I am meek and humble Thus she goes on. But what is she by the Church, the interpreter of thti
of heart." But it was not the Heep- actually saying — in effect at least? will of God.

like humility that the Christ meant Something like this : "God, who put So let us say that we have before)
when He gave the exhortation, for me on this earth, has made a pretty us one who does possess the true
between the true humility taught by poor job of me physically, mentally, brand of humility. What is she'
the Savior of the world, and the false and spiritually. In spite of my like? Well, as a matter of fact
humility of Uriah Heep and his kind, Christian baptism, my soul is streaky except that she is pleasant and
lie unfathomable worlds. One is the and grimy. The Sacrament of Pen- agreeable, we should hardly note iri
reality, the other the caricaturing ance, while it is said to restore grace her much that is different from the
shadow. to the soul, is wholly inadequate to common run of human beings. She:

But, as is usual, it is the carica- my needs. God has shown unfair is usually one who fills her sphere
ture that remains in the minds of discrimination in the apportionment in life, whether it be high or rela-
the public ; and to a great many who of His gifts, and as for attaining tively unimportant, with a kind of
should know better, Humility and anything above mediocrity in this whole-hearted interest and enthusi-
"Heepism" have become synonymous world or the next with the miserable asm. She makes use of her talents,
terms. Even some worthy souls who means at my disposal, it is beyond whatever they may be, for the serv-
agree that humility is a Christian consideration. But with all this fa- ing of God and neighbor — and it is!
virtue and proceed to put it into voritism and injustice, I shall prob- often surprising to those about her
earnest practice, take the Heep-at- ably squeeze into heaven yet, for I can to discover how many gifts and
titude to be the correct one, and look forgivingly upon the God who graces she seems to have, once they
thereupon become cringingly "'urn- is making it so difficult for me; and know her well.

ble." goodness knows, I have filled my- But how does she use the out-

It is because this distorted notion self with one salutary virtue — I am standing virtue of her soul? She
of humility is so prevalent that we humble." says in effect: "God, the creator of

ought to take every opportunity of All of this looks shockingly irrev- the Universe, has deigned to bestow
trying to set it right. For humility erent as I set it down — and for a fact upon me the amazing gift of crea-
te a necessary virtue, and an ennobl- it is. But I am firmly convinced that tion. Where there was no I, here
ing virtue, and it is a downright as a rule the irreverence is wholly I am. The greatest compliment
shame to see it misused and mis- unintentional, and that none would that Omnipotence could pay is mine
understood, be it with ever so worthy be more deeply scandalized at such — He made me. He has set me down
an intention. And as is the case with a paraphrase of their own thoughts in this world, which is really but a
so many reforms, it is the Catholic than those who so misuse and mis- beautiful island of detention ; He has
woman in her home who can best understand the meaning of Christian given me the work of tending a gar-
bring about a shift to the correct humility. So it is not to rail against den in which He has placed seeds
understanding of true humility. them as hypocrites, for they lack of every kind of good fruit. In ad-

First, let her take for an example the intention of hypocrisy, but it dition to that task, He allows me to
the contrast between the false and is in the hope of making them see occupy myself with my fellow crea-
the true, for there is no place where that their conception of the word is tures in making lovelier the enchant-
flimsy finery looks worse than close wrong, and that what is one of the ing isle of our exile. He has made
beside quiet excellence of line and most splendid of virtues is being fertile the soil of my soul-garden
material. Similarly, never does false distorted by them into something with the life-giving waters of the
humility appear more cheap and false and ugly, that I set the state- Sacraments. He has rendered safe
hypocritical than in contrast with the ment of the case out so plainly, my path by placing me under the
real thing. These persons unwittingly fashion care of a Teacher whom he has ap-

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205

)ointed to show all men the way to
iim. Can I do else than give my-
self whole-heartedly to every duty
:hat is mine? All that I have is
iis, and being His is beautiful be-
/ond the imagination of men. My
york it is to keep His graces fresh
ind sweet; to pluck out with the tools
ie has placed there for me, any weeds
;hat may hinder the blossoming of
ny soul-garden; and to use and ap-
preciate all His gifts' with every
sreath and to the uttermost limits
)f my ability."

Would you call such an attitude
?ride, or true humility?

God has given to each of us the

Braces necessary for our journey to
lim. What more could we ask?
knd it seems to me the acme of dis-
courtesy to Him whose guests we
ire, to belittle or deny His favors.

Each one of us can fill his or her
own niche in a worthy or an un-
worthy manner. It is not the fault
)f the niche if we are misfits. Once
we are sure that it is ours, it is our
own fault if we find ourselves un-
comfortable. Of course we must
itruggle against mediocrity in what-
ever line of work may be ours. A
good and brilliant man once said,
'Holy Scripture makes no mention
of the highly respectable average,
save to urge us to rise above it."
Such soaring, however, is not beat-
ing the wings of discontent against
the bars of a cage, but rather melt-
ing any bars that seem to hold us
with the pure and up-flung blaze of
our love for Him who is our life.

We modern Catholic women must
keep the image of true humility in
our'hearts ; we must instill the knowl-
edge of it in the minds of our chil-
dren, and a love of it in their hearts,
that the next generation may bring
its real meaning back to general use.
Remember that our beautiful ideal
of womanhood once cried out in an
ecstasy of inspiration words that
have come ringing down the ages as
a glorious peal of humility.

"My soul doth magnify the Lord :

And my spirit rejoiced in God,
my Savior.

Because He hath regarded the hu-
mility of His handmaiden

For behold from henceforth all
generations shall call me blessed,

For He that is mighty hath done
great things to me:

And holy is His Name."

S"SSHWS2SffiH5ffiH525HSE5H5HS25HSE5HSffiffiH5HSH5^^

MATER CHRISTI

Mother of Christ, we are kneeling before thee

World-weary sinners with grief-stricken hearts !
Love is enough — give us love we implore thee —
Love and the wisdom that pure love imparts.

Teach us the lesson that time cannot teach us —

Tell us the secret of heavenly lore;
Show us a haven where sin may not reach us ;

Guide us at last to eternity's shore.

Lift up thy hands when temptation is raging;

Pity our weakness and plead with thy Son ;
Stand by us still in the strife we are waging;

Comfort and guard till the crown has been won!

Marian Nesbitt

61 '

PIONEER DAYS IN SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN

By Fr. Odoric, 0. F. M., Missionary

JUST as the old-fashioned clock
in the adjoining room was tell-
ing the midnight hour, I sealed
the letter I had penned to Father
Provincial, requesting that he send
a lay Brother to replace my cook who
had; taken French leave with my
pocketbook and its meager contents.
That was on January 30, 1882, forty
years ago, at a time when Superior,
Wisconsin was but a trading post
and its inhabitants mainly Indians.
Weary in soul and body, I headed for
the straw sack and was soon doz-
ing off into the land of "Sleep that
knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,"
when suddenly a frantic jerk at the
door bell rang through the little
house we called the friary. In a
moment I was at the window, threw
it open and shouted, "Who's there?
What do you want?" — "Father,"
came back nervously through the
cold night wind, "hurry' — you're
wanted. A fellow got stabbed down
at the Nemadji river." — Oh, for the
unearthly hours that a priest ana
missionary must be ready to keep if
he wishes to redeem his sacred
pledge !

Well do I remember the serious
trouble of which that stabbing affair
was but an episode. The "Air Line"
was to be established for the trans-
portation of the mineral products
realized in these regions. It was to
run almost parallel with the North-
western Railroad, between Superior
and Chicago. About forty miles of
roadbed was finished, when all un-
expectedly the company had declared
itself insolvent and dismissed its em-
ployees without paying them their
wages. Naturally, this created much
discontent among the men and
brought hundreds of them down to
headquarters Camp situated on the
little Nemadji or Left Hand river,

within the present limits of the city
of Superior. Here the men helped
themselves to the foodstuffs stored up
at the camp. As often happens at such
times, a riot ensued during which
one of the employees was stabbed in
the abdomen.

When I arrived, I found the poor
man lying on a little straw in one of
the shanties. Though weak from the
loss of blood and suffering great pain,
he succeeded in making his confes-
sion; whereupon I gave him all the
rites of the Church. Meanwhile,
many men were standing around in
the shanty discussing how to avenge
the recent outrage. They were very
angry and openly declared their in-
tention of lynching the criminal.
Quietly I listened to their story of
wrongs too long endured. When
they had finished, I took the floor and
made a speech for peace (or a "piece"
of speech, if you will) that a delegate
at the Versailles Conference could
have been proud of. I assured them
that they who had worked so hard
and received no pay could figure on
my sympathy and that I hoped I, who
was in the same boat, could figure on
theirs; they had been defrauded by
their employers as I had been robbed
by my cook; in their. case it was a
fraud, in mine thievery. So what
was the difference? Both of us had
nothing, though both of us had
worked. If I didn't mind being like
them in having nothing, they oughtn't
mind being like me in trying to for-
get the matter. And as to the fellow
who resorted to stabbing, I assured
them he would soon be sorry for it;
but by killing him they would only
be blackening their good name and
doing nothing for the recovery of the
friend. "Let the law take its course,"
I concluded, "and all will end well."

This improvised speech gained its

206

point better than I anticipated while?
making it. Later I heard it rumored*
that a number of the men had de-J
clared "the knife-wielder would byJ
now be carved into ribbons, had not
the priest butted in."

About two months after this inci-fl
dent, on March 18, I was summoned!
to administer the last sacraments]
to Jane Bongo, who was in the last]
stages of consumption. Her mother!
was an Indian and her father a negro. t|
Though the latter was bitterly op-
posed to the Catholic Church and its'
doctrine, Jane had her three children)
baptized in the true faith. Subse-
quently, she herself received the]
sacrament of Baptism and a little]
later her brother Ignace followed her j
example. Her father, however, wag]
inexorable. I tried long and hard to ]
bring him around; but in vain. I
Though we remained good friends j
and had many an interesting con-]
versation, he would immediately cut ]
short all my attempts to "talk relig-
ion," saying with a careless waive of I
the hand, "What's the use? I'm all
right." At the time when Mr. Bongo
came to Superior, the only inhabi-
tants for miles around were redskins.
Of this fact my old friend made |
boastful mention many a time, main- j
taining with a hearty chuckle that he
was the first "white" man to settle |
on Lake Superior.

To be deprived of the blessings
and delights of religious community
life is unquestionably the severest ol
the trials under which a young mis-
sionary must try to bear up. Such
was my lot in Superior during those
pioneer days of Franciscan activity
in Wisconsin. The sole sharer of my
loneliness was a big red tomcat with
whom, like Robinson Crusoe on his
desert island, I tried to remain on
peaceful and friendly terms. Many

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FRANCISCAN HERALD

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a time I sat there in my room, tak- Catholics in Superior. He had a going to be. "I am making a pulpit,"
ing a dose of Father Provincial's warm spot in his big heart for the their brown-robed friend would re-
medicine labeled "Have Patience" Indians. Often in after years it ply and then laugh heartily when his
and wondering whether that panacea would occur to me what a zealous critical inspectors objected that it
would really bring relief. Well, it and successful Indian missionary he would be a funny looking pulpit, that
idid; and the reader can imagine how would have made if God had spared they did not see how a person could
imy heart leaped for joy when at last him for such a career. He mani- preach from it, and so on.
imy hope was realized and good fested also a great interest in the chil- That Fr. Alphonse had been right,
brother Edmund arrived (I think it dren, who, in turn, took a special however, in calling his little house a
was in March), to serve as aid-de- fancy to him. Many times they could pulpit the children as well as their
camp in the capacity of cook, porter, be seen gathered around him, listen- elders found out on Christmas day
sacristan, and everything else that ing to the stories he knew how to tell when they came to church and per-

fallsi to the self-chos-
en lot of a Francis-
can lay brother.

But more than this.
Good things were now
falling thick and fast,
like snow flakes in a
Wisconsin winter. On
June 20 of the same
year, the "Superior"'
hermit was blessed
with another kind and
loving companion in
! the person of Rev. Fr.
, Alphonse Schroer. He
had been sent, so a
letter stated, by Fa-
jther Provincial to the
country of fresh air
and scenic grandeur
[for the purpose of
having his shattered
' health restored and at
the same time engag-
ing in what priestly
work his conditions al-
lowed him to under-
take. A brief account
of the last days of this
true and worthy son
of St. Francis will
surely not be out of
place in these Reminiscences

Grave of Fr. Alphonse at Wisconsin Point

haps for the first time
in their lives beheld
the realistic represen-
tation of the stable in
which the Savior was
born. On the night of
the great feast, Fr.
Alphonse himself in a
beautiful sermon told
the people all about
the pulpit that had
been erected for the
great day. In truly
Franciscan fashion he
pointed out the beau-
tiful and salutary les-
sons which the Divine
Child was preaching
to them from His pul-
pit, the crib. Not only
Catholics but even
such as were not of
the faith had come to
the services that even-
ing. All listened with
rapt attention to the
man for whom they
cherished such deep
sentiments of love and
respect. Well thoy
knew that he would
soon be taken from

Now them in so simple and charming a them — he was no longer able to hide
that he is gone to a better land than manner. One incident, above all, is the truth of his condition ; and many
even Wisconsin, I may tell of him still fresh in my memory. The Chirst- a prayer, I am sure, ascended that
what would be ill-advised were he still mas season was coming on and, like evening and during the rest of the
among the living. a true son of St. Francis, Fr. Al- holy season to the throne of God,

Fr. Alphonse was an exemplary phonse suggested that a crib be erec- asking that death be not permitted
religious in every respect, as I had ted in the church. Gladly Fr. Serv- to lay his icy touch on their esteemed
occasion to learn during the nine atius Altmicks, who had been appoint- father and friend,
months that he was in Superior, ed superior and pastor at the chap- But God, in His infinite wisdom,
Though stricken with a very painful ter in the preceding summer, gave had so decreed and Fr. Alphonse was
illness and quite aware that his days his consent. Now the young priest fully resigned. During the month
here on earth were counted, he always could be seen with saw, hammer, and of January he suffered an unusually
tried and generally contrived to let nails, fastening 1 boards into what severe spell from which he never
his naturally sunny and amiable dis- was to be the stable of Bethlehem, after fully recovered. In fact, it
position appear on the surface for Time and again, the children of the soon became evident that the end was
the good of those around him. This, neighborhood would stand by, some near. Repeatedly, during the last
of course, secured him many friends gazing curiously at the strange lit- weeks of his life, he would assure me
and well-wishers, not only among the tie house he was making and others, that, while he was not afraid or re-
Catholics but also among the non- more forward, asking him what it was luctant to die, he still wondere.l when

208 FRANCISCANHERALD May, 1922

God would call him hence. The first ,-^ ^^--r^-^ -,-» m^^n^nTmrMiTAnTT

of March found our dear confrere A DOUBLE TERCENTENARY

too ill to be up and around. "Father,"

he remarked to me one day, "wouldn't By Francis Borgia Steck, O. F. M.

it be nice if I died on the feast of

Our Lady of Dolores? I was thinking r ■ >HE dawn of the seventeenth In the course of the next seven-;

also of the feast of the Annunciation, century found the Church teen years, the aforementioned com-

but I guess that would be a greater J_ confronted with two serious mission of cardinals gradually came

favor than I could expect of God." problems. Northern and Central to an end when its functionaries'

It was Wednesday in Holy Week, Europe was lying cold and almost passed to a better life and none were '
March 21. Shortly ofter midnight, I lifeless in the death grip of heresy appointed to continue their work. At;
feared that my patient, with whom and schism; while in the vast regions this juncture, it was again a Capu-jl
I had waked that night, would not beyond the seas the armies of monks chin, Fr. Jerome of Narni, who was ,
live till morning. His .sufferings and friars were engaged in the con- especially active in reviving and pro-
must have been very great, to judge quest of immortal souls. This two- moting the plans which the now de-
from the twitching of his colorless fold problem, the reclamation of the ceased Fr. Cherubin had proposed to
lips and the occasional sigh he failed spiritual losses sustained during the the Holy See. Fr. Jerome was 1
to stifle. Accordingly, I awoke Fr. storm of Protestantism and the culti- known far and wide both as mission- 1
Servatius and together we recited vation of those fertile fields but re- ary and as scholar. Cardinal Bellar- 1
the prayers for the dying. When cently opened to Christian influence, min, one of the great lights of the |
we had finished, the sufferer opened demanded centralization of efforts Church at that time, regarded him \
his eyes and with a smile said almost and unity of action. The Church as another St. Paul,
jokingly, "Too early — not yet." realized this; and, the better to ac- Pope Gregory XV, who ascended!

At four o'clock, since I had to go complish the expansion of God's the Chair of St. Peter in 1621, be-|
to Gordon on a sick call, I went to the kingdom among the nations, she def- came acquainted with and deeply in- {
sacristy and vested for holy Mass, initely established on June 22, 1622, terested in the friar's project through
which was to be offered for our dying a special pontifical department known his own nephew, Cardinal Ludovisi,
confrere. I had hardly commenced as the Sacred Congregation of Propa- whose cooperation Fr. Jerome had (
reading the Passion of Our Lord, as ganda. already enlisted. The result was that

the rubrics for that day prescribed, Some thirty years before this im- the pope, on January 14, 1622, sum-j
when Fr. Servatius stepped up to my portant event in the history of the rnoned the cardinals for a special !
side and whispered, "He just now Church, a Capuchin friar was labor- session. On this occasion, Fr. Jerome !
breathed his last." ing with heroic zeal and remarkable was permitted to propose his plan!

It proved a severe blow for all the success as missionary in the various to the distinguished assembly. Thei
townspeople when they learned that cantons of Switzerland. It was Fr. cardinals accorded them their unani-|
Fr. Alphonse was no more. In large Cherubin of Maurienne, the inti- m0 us approval; whereupon, by order,'
numbers they gathered in church on mate friend and adviser of St. Fran- f the Sovereign Pontiff, Fr. Jerome j
the following Saturday to show him cis de Sales. We may readily sup- addressed letters to al! the papal nun-
their respect. Though the ice was pose that it was this great Tertiary c i os a t the various courts of Europe i
melting, some even risked crossing bishop of Geneva who encouraged and to the Ministers General of the)
the lake in their sleighs in order to Fr. Cherubin in his project of uni- Religious Orders then engaged in
escort their friend to his last resting fying all missionary activity, foreign foreign and home mission work,
place. He had repeatedly expressed as well as domestic, under one gov- ^ ne tag k f organizing was im-
the wish to be buried on Wisconsin erning body immediately responsi- mec iiately taken up and during the
Point among the Indians whom he ble to the Supreme Pontiff. At all next ^ ew mon ths had progressed so-
loved so dearly and for whose wel- events, as early as 1599, the zealous ^ ar tnat on j une 2 2 the pope issued
fare he would so gladly have lived missionary had an audience with ^ e Bull "Inscrutabili Divinae,"
and labored, if such had been the will Pope Clement VIII and laid his plan thereby definitely establishing the
of God. Needless to say, we granted before him. Previously, a commis- g acrec f Congregation of Propaganda,
him his wish. For over thirty years, sion of three cardinals had been or- Thirteen cardinals and two prelates
the quaint Indian cemetery on Wis- ganized to care for the missions. w j^ a secr etarv and a consultor
consin Point had one grave where But the sphere of their activity seems f ormed the governing body. Under
visitors would never fail to pause and to have been restricted to bringing their iurisdiction came all the foreign
say a fervent prayer. A few years about a union of the Christian Ori- and tne domestic missions. At the
ago, when the United States Steel entals with the Church of Rome. regu ] ar sess j ns of the Congregation,
Corporation took possession of the The friar's project was therefore tne annua j repo rts which the mis-
Point for industrial purposes, all the something new and naturally roused sionaries from a u par t R f the world
graves in the old cemetery were the interest of the far-sighted and ^ were examined and

opened and the corpses transferred energetic pope, insomuch that there , . „-„„,-„-J

to the Catholic cemetery in East End, is reason to believe he would have the status of j th< L var A° US m . 18S "5
Superior. The first corpse to be re- acted in the matter and seen it fields discussed. The Pope nimseii
moved was that of Fr. Alphonse. through, had not death, in 1605, and his nephew, Cardinal Ludovisi,
(Continued on page 233) called him to his reward. headed the list of those who fur-

! May, 1922 ■ FRAXCISCANHERALD 209

nished funds for the support of the apostolic, 13 so-called missions, and instruct the people on this mattei
Congregation and its work. 2 abbacies with episcopal jurisdic- and acquaint them with the wish of

> Perhaps the most enthusiastic tion. To these must be added 22 mis- the Sovereign Pontiff, namely, that,
and energetic of the thirteen cardi- sionary colleges, the Mission Society as circumstances of time and place
nals on the Congregation was Cardi- of the White Fathers, the Sodality may demand or advise, triduums of
nal Barberini. He was destined as of St. Peter Claver, and various other prayer be held for the missions, in
Urban VIII (1624-1644), to give the mission societies. Unfortunately, the cathedral and parish churches
Congregation that form which it has we are not in a position to say how and in the principal churches of
retained practically to the present many missionary priests and lay every diocese and mission."
day. He unified its activity still more brothers are at present laboring in Coincident with the celebration of
by appointing a Prefect General in missions under the jurisdiction of the third centenary of its founding,
the person ox nis brother Cardinal the Propaganda. For China, how- the Sacred Congregation of Propa-
Antony Barberini. Through the gen- ever, we have quite recent figures, ganda commemorates also the three
erosity of a Spanish prelate, who pre- These may serve to show what the hundredth anniversary of the death
sented his palace and 40,000 crowns, Sacred Congregation is doing for the of its proto-martyr, St. Fidelis of
the famous Urban College (Colleg- conversion of heathen lands. There Sigmaringen, O. M. Cap. It is sig-
ium Urbanum) could be opened for are in China to-day 2,326 Catholic nificant that the first missionary to
'such students as wished to prepare missionaries. According to nation- shed his blood in the great work
themselves for missionary work. At ality, they may be summed up as fol- taken up and assigned him by the
his own expense, Cardinal Barberini lows: French, 612; Italians, 201; newly founded Congregation should
not only erected and decorated a suit- Belgians, 182 ; Spaniards, 122 ; be a son of St. Francis who was him-
able College church, but, to improve Dutch, 117; Germans, 100; Portu- self so ardent an advocate of the mis-
the substantial gift of the Spanish guese, 56; Americans, 20. Assisting sions and whose Order, during the
'prelate, likewise purchased all the these are 936 native Chinese priests, past seven years of its existence,
buildings that adjoined the palace, The great majority of the European ranked second to none in missionary
thus establishing that compact and missionaries are members of relig- zeal and activity,
■aptly secluded cluster of college ious orders. We may add that, ac- St. Fidelis was born at Sigmarin-
- buildings which even today elicit the cording to a very conservative esti- gen, Prussia, in 1577. Having suc-
; admiration of visitors in Rome. mate, not less than 20,000 Sisters cessfully pursued his higher studies

Likewise at his own expense, the are helping the priests in the mission at the university of Freiburg, where
i Cardinal founded scholarships: for under the Propaganda. he took his degree in canon and civil

young men of foreign extraction, To give the jubilee year of the law, he followed the profession of
Persians, Copts, Armenians, Ethiopi- founding of the Sacred Congrega- lawyer till 1611. But feeling him-
ans, Indians, Turks, Russians, and tion of Propaganda the significance self called to the sanctuary, he ap-
! Tartars. To this day, a tablet on the it deserves and to create among proached the bishop of the diocese
! monument which the college erected Catholics the world over, a livelier and, in the following year, he was
; in 1634 to the memory of Cardinal interest in the missions, His Emi- ordained priest. Already before tak-
1 Barberini bears testimony to the nence Cardinal Van Rossum, Prefect ing t'lis step, Fr. Fidelis, by which
lively and practical interest this dis- of the Propaganda, last December, name he was to be known in religion,
tinguished prince of the Church man- drew up a decree which was ap- practiced prayer and mortification in
lifested in the work that during the proved by Pope Benedict XV, of a heroic degree. No one was there-
llast three centuries has achieved so blessed memory, and which in part fore surprised when immediately
jmuch for the salvation of souls in reads as follows: after his ordination he entered the

every country under the sun. "His Holiness accordingly pre- Capuchin Order at Freiburg. After

Some months ago a brief survey scribes that on the three days pre- finishing the year of novitiate and
1 appeared in the foreign magazines, ceding Pentecost Sunday of next the prescribed course of theological
i describing the extent of the foreign year, 1922, there be held in the City studies, the saintly and learned friar
mission field at present under the (Rome) a solemn triduum of prayers was appointed guardian of the com-
I jurisdiction of the Sacred Congrega- for the propagation of the faith and munity at Rheinfelden and later at
| tion of Propaganda. It shows on the that at the same time the faithful Freiburg and Feldkirch.
lone hand how far-reaching the scope be reminded in appropriate sermons In 1621, while guardian at Feld-
I of its activity and influence is and of the importance of the sacred mis- kirch, Fr. Fidelis, in obedience to
I demonstrates on the other hand that sions and of the dire want they are the voice of his Superior, undertook
! to-day as in centuries past the relig- suffering. the conversion of the Calvinists in

| ious orders rank foremost in fulfill- "On Pentecost Sunday, His Holi- Grisons, the eastermost canton of
ing the Church's great mission of ness will celebrate Solemn High Mass Switzerland. During Advent of that
'bringing the light of the Gospel to in the Patriarchal Basilica of the year he arrived in Mayenfeld. His
the nations that are still in darkness Vatican, and during the solemnity of fame as a fearless preacher and
, and in the shadow of death. Ac- this Mass he himself will address the powerful writer against the fallacies
I cording to this survey, the foreign faithful on the propagation of the of Calvinism preceded him into the
| missions fields are divided into 28 Catholic faith. regions of heresy. Naturally, the

i arch-bishoprics, 57 bishoprics, 181 "His Holiness has likewise pre- adherents of Calvin were greatly in-
I vicariates apostolic, 69 prefectures scribed that the bishops in due time censed over his coming into their

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St. Fidelis

midst. Their anger and hatred
sought egress in open insults and
threats when the intrepid missionary
publicly in the churches and on the
street corners exposed their perni-
cious doctrines to the crowds that
gathered to hear him, and in public
disputations put their leaders and
preachers to shame by his cogent
reasoning and irresistible eloquence.

During the Easter-tide of 1622, Fr.
Fidelis returned to Feldkirch, where
he was still guardian, in order to at-
tend the regular chapter of the Prov-
ince. One of the matters that came
up for consideration was the mission
activity of the Province to be organ-
ized after the plans of the Sacred
Congregation of Propaganda, by that
time practically established. The
field assigned to Fr. Fidelis was
again the country of the Grisons, and
with renewed zeal the man of God
returned to the scene of combat
where he had already scored so many
a triumph.

He had just departed when the Pro-
vincial Superior received a letter
from the nuncio of Switzerland, Al-
exander Scappi, to the effect that the
Sacred Congregation had chosen
Fr. Fidelis to supervise the Capuchin
mission activity among the Grisons
Calvinists. Without delay, the Pro-
vincial, under date of- April 21, 1622,
wrote to Fr. Fidelis, informing him
(jf the appointment. But before this

letter reached him, his enemies had
carried out their devilish plan.

Fr. Fidelis' return was greeted
with threatening cries of "Death to
the Capuchins!" It was April 24,
1622, three days after the Provincial
had written that letter. Having
heard confessions, celebrated holy
Mass, and preached on the horror of
blasphemy in the little town of
Grusch, the zealous missionary set
out for Servis where he had arranged
for a sermon on the words of St.
Paul: "One God, one faith, one bap-
tism." A large crowd had gathered
to hear him. But he had scarcely
ascended the pulpit and begun to
speak, when a general commotion,
within and without the church, com-
pelled him to stop. In the scuffle
that ensued a number ot Austrians
guarding the church were killed by
the Calvinists. Fr. Fidelis himself,
who had come down from the pulpit,
to restore quiet, received a wound.
Appearing at the door of the church,
he was immediately surrounded by
an angry mob. A Calvinist preacher
standing by offered to save him from
falling a victim to mob fury if he
would renounce the Church and es-
pouse the doctrine of Calvin. "I
came to extirpate heresy, not to em-
brace it," was the friar's bold re-
ply; whereupon, like ravenous wolves,
the mob rushed toward him and the
sword of the foremost struck him
down. Kneeling on the ground with
a deep gash in his head, he exclaimed :
"Jesus! Mary! My God, have mercy
on me!" Another cruel thrust
stretched him to the ground; where-
upon twenty halberts tortured the
saintly friar until life was extinct.
Thus fought and died for the faith
this valiant son of St. Francis,
whom the Sacred Congregation of
Propaganda justly venerates as Its
proto-martyr. He was beatified in
1729 and sixteen years later his name
was placed on the list of the Martyr
Saints of the Church. All three
branches of the Franciscan Order
keep his feast on April 24, the day
of his glorious martyrdom. "In this
way," as Fr. D'Alencpn concludes his
historical essay in the Annates Fran-
ciscaine, "the centenary of the fount,
ing of the Sacred Congregation of
Propaganda is also the centenary of
its first martyr, St. Fidelis of Sig-
maringen."

Responsory to St. Paschal

(Patron of the Euca&risUc League)

St. Paschal, worthy of all praise.

Thou fairest flower of sanctity;
Resplendent with the songs of grace,

Bestowing favors heavenly;

Come to our aid who on thee call
And suppliant seek thy help to
gain;

And what we fear do thou forestall,
And what we crave do thou obtain.

Assist us that renewed in soul

At Heaven's Table we may dine,

And from it draw the precious dole
Of sustenance and strength divine.

Come to our aid, etc. (as above)

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
May fairest hymns of glory be.

Come to our aid, etc. (as above)

V. Pray for us, St. Paschal.

R. That we may be made worthy of
the promises of Christ.

LET US PRAY
O God, who hast honored thy confessor Blessed
Paschal with a wonderful love. for the sacred
mysteries of Thy Body and Blood; mercifully
grant that the same spiritual fruits which he
derived from this divine banquet, we. too. may
be worthy to receive. Who livest and reigneit
for ever and ever. Amen.

Flettoii

FOR BASIL'S SAKE

"O::

CHAPTER I

"Now rings the icoodland loud and
long,
The distance takes a lovelier hue,
And drown'd in yonder living blue,

The lark becomes a sightless song."

Margery, how fresh and
cool you look ! I am lost in
admiration ; this heat kills
me, and makes me ugly also ! Come,
confess — am I not as red as the roof
of the old barn yonder which you al-
ways think so picturesque?"

"Really, Marie, you are too absurd !
What does it matter about one's com-
plexion ! I never even give a thought
Ijto mine — who could, this lovely
'weather?" And Margery leant back
against the oak trunk, clasping her
i|hands behind her head with a sigh
of ineffable content.
i She was a slight, graceful girl — -
small for her sixteen years — with
clustering dark brown hair, an oval
(face, grey eyes, clearly-cut features,
and a delicate complexion, which was
a constant source of admiration to
jher adoring friend and schoolfellow,
Marie de Fleurville. The latter was
contemplating her now, not with
Henvy — she was too faithful in her de-
motion for that — yet with a certain
Heeling of regret for what she chose
fto consider her own personal short-
comings.

"You are beautiful!" she cried,
'[enthusiastically. "Ah! I wish I was
ilike you," and she shook back her long
flaxen plait with a characteristic ges-
ture of distaste. "Margery, tell me,
(do you never want to go away and
[lleave St. Marc?"

; "Never, never, never!" exclaimed
Jthe other, emphatically. "I love
ijF ranee — I love my French home, and
Ithe dear friends who have been so

By Marian Nesbitt

Author of "Lamps of Fire"

kind to me ever since I can remem-
ber."

"But you have relations in Eng-
land?"

"One cousin, I believe ; but whether
he is young or old, nice or nasty, I
haven't the ghost of an idea. 1
strongly suspect, though, that he
knows little about us and cares, of
course, much less."

"So much the better," answered
Marie. "It will be a sad day for us
when you leave St. Marc — yet leave
it, you assuredly must. Some golden
morning the fairy prince will come,
and "

"Fairy prince, indeed," cried Mar-
gery, with a ring of fine scorn in her
clear young voice. "You know I
would never leave Hugh for the hand-
somest prince that ever stepped from
between the pages of our dear old
nursery tale books."

"No," interrupted the French girl,
hastily. "Forgive me, cherie; I
meant nothing. Hugh is a brother
not to be found every day."

"I should rather think not. There
is no one like him — no one!"

"So my mother says."

"Dear Marquise," murmured Mar-
gery, affectionately. "I appreciate her
good taste." Then rising, she turned
impulsively to her friend. "Perhaps
you think I ought not to talk so of
my own brother, Marie. But remem-
ber all he has been to me since our
dear mother died. Think of the other
young men we know. Would one of
them have treated his sister as Hugh
has treated me? I say no — a thou-
sand times no! You may laugh, but
it is the truth."

"I know it, Margery, and I have no
wish to laugh," said Marie, gravely.
"For myself, I think Hugh is too
noble for our prosaic age. He ought

211

to have been one of your great King
Arthur's Knights."

"My dearest girl, how lucky he
can't hear you," cried Margery, turn-
ing away with a merry laugh. "Come,
it is more than half-past five, and I,
at least, am commonplace enough to
feel simply famishing."

The two girls ran swiftly down
the path that wound along the
wooded hillside. The brilliant sun-
shine, striking down between the
flickering leaves, made a golden trac-
ery on the green turf beneath their
feet. In the moss beside the path, the
delicate wood-anemones were sway-
ing their frail blossoms. Margery
stopped to gather a few and then
walked on more slowly. The fair-
ness of God's beautiful world made
her silent, though all the while her
heart was throbbing with the unut-
terable joy and gladness of the
spring.

In truth it was a sufficiently charm-
ing scene upon which her eyes rested
and one that, familiar as it was,
never failed to awaken an ever-new
sense of delight. An opening between
the trees showed the picturesque old
town sleeping peacefully in the after-
noon light. Its tall houses, with their
quaint gables and many-colored
roofs, had never lost their interest
for Margery; while in the midst,
watching over all, rose the stately old
Cathedral, its towers standing
sharply out against the intense blue
of the sky.

But it was not for its architectural
merits that she loved it. She knew
every nook and corner — every pic-
tured saint and praying angel — with-
in its ancient walls. There she had
made her First Communion; there
she had been confirmed one bright
May morning, when the Archbishop

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came to celebrate the Patronal Feast, you of that position which you may contrast between herself and Mar

There she had knelt day after day, one day be called upon to fill." gery.

through all the sunny years of child- Poor Margery! In truth, this posi- The latter, quite apart from an>

hood, and it only seemed to grow tion was somewhat of a terror to her, beauty of form or feature, possessec

dearer as each season came and went, and she tortured herself as some a certain nameless charm of mannei

Margery Castellain, despite her un- natures so well know how to do, and bearing, inherited from her Irist

doubted cleverness, was in many re- imagining that perhaps some un- mother — the mother who would evei

spects singularly young for her age; expected aunt or uncle might sud- be her ideal of all that was fair anc

and the atmosphere of her foreign denly appear to claim her; and then, pure and good,

home, while increasing and strength- despite her entreaties to be allowed As the two girls crossed the PIa«

ening her intellectual growth, had, at to remain with Hugh, she would be de la Paix, they saw a young mar

the same time, done much to foster carried off to England and intro- coming towards them from the op-

the fresh and childlike spirit which duced into that great world of which posite direction

made her so attractive. Her first dis- the Marquise so often spoke. But There was something distinctlj

not foreign in the car-
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t i n c t recollections
were all of peaceful St.
Marc, with its medi-
aeval-looking streets,
its cloudless summer
skies, its wooded
mountain slopes, its
invigorating pine-
scented air which
even in the dark days
of winter is not damp
and chill. England
she had never seen
and, though she loved
it for her dead fath-
er's sake, the thought
of really leaving St.
Marc had never en-
tered her head for a
moment.

Marie's careless
words, however, a-
roused a vague feel-
ing of uneasiness in
her mind;, recalling,
as they could not fail
to do, the unwelcome
fact that she knew
next to nothing about
her own people, noth-
ing definite, that is to say, regard

The Breaking of the Bread

I cannot understand, dear Lord, how I
Kneeling at dawn with only two or three
In the dark church can draw so near to Thee,
When often in the throng, Thou art not nigh,
Yet here I feel, the while I scarce know why,
Thy blessed Presence at my side to be!

"Have I not said: To each who loveth Me
And passeth not My mild commandments by
I manifest Myself? Apart, alone,
Some clasp Me closest! Others in the press
Of thronged Altars, touch My seamless dress;
But still in Breaking Bread am I made known
To the five thousand, or the two or three,
And lo! I dwell in them and they in Me."

riage of the slight fig-l
ure — something pe-
culiar, too, in thea
walk; for while ht
appeared to be mov-i
ing slowly, he will
beside them almosll
before Margery had'
time to spring for-j
ward.

"Hugh!" she criedj
gaily.

He looked up and
smiled, raising his cap|
with the graceful
courtesy that Marie'
so much admired; HI
seemed so different)
from the somewhat]
studied politeness of]
her own countrymen!
and, in her eyes, lent]
a certain romantic]
charm to all his]
words and actions j|
though, truth to tellj]
gentleness and cour*
tesy came* naturally
to Hugh Castellain,]
for "Manners are not idle, but the

the delights of a London season pos
ing the different members of the sessed no charm for her, simple child fruit of loyal nature, and of noble
Castellain family. That she bore that she was; and she gladly con- mind."

an old and honored name she could soled herself with the thought that, He was rather tall and very slight
not but be aware, for the good Mar- so far as they knew, their nearest and thin, as I have said, but his face
quise did not hesitate to constantly relation was the one cousin before was one sufficiently difficult to de-
remind her of it. mentioned. scribe. His dark brown hair fell over
"Noblesse oblige, my dear Mar- On reaching the foot of the hill, a broad intellectual forehead; his
gery," she was wont to say, on those the two friends turned to the right grey eyes were full of earnest
occasions when she felt it incumbent and entered the town by one of those thought, not unmixed with sadness;
upon her to impress her young lis- picturesque old gateways that are his sensitive lips spoke of won-
tener with a proper sense of responsi- such a source of admiration to the derous capability for that suffering
bility. "I am quite aware that, as visitors who from time to time flocked which is so acute in such a nature
your great poet says : 'Tis only noble to St. Marc. as his — a nature to enjoy with equal
to be good;' but at the same time Marie, notwithstanding her low intensity, if that might be. But in
each sphere in life has its own par- estimate of her own personal attrac- this life of ours, the shadows gen-
icular duties; and I believe I am tions, was by no means unpleasing, erally seem to outweigh the sunshine,
only doing what your dearest mother though her flaxen-haired, blue-eyed Why, we cannot tell — God knows,
would have wished, when I speak to preitiness accentuated the strong Only this at least seems certain, that

j May, 1922 FRANCISCAN HERALD 213

, to one of Hugh Castellain's tempera- Marie and Margery knew all her lain and Marie de Fleurville were
ment existence can never be the stories by heart; and the former once more living under the same roof,
peaceful summer dream it is to many, gazed at her retreating figure with a The Marquise's house far exceeded
His was no ordinary character, sigh of relief, ere she turned to join the simple requirements of herself
Margery, in a burst of girlish en- the brother and sister. and her little girl ; she therefore pro-

thusiasm and sisterly affection, had Laughing and talking gaily, the posed that her friend should come to
i said there was "no one like him," and, trio made their way along the fa- her — at least for the present.
i in truth, he possessed some strange miliar streets; then, leaving the town "You are lonely and in sorrow, my
' charm of voice and personality that behind them, they directed their dearest Kathleen," wrote the Mar-
made him more than usually inter- steps down a pretty tree-shaded road q U j se . "S am I. Let us comfort
esting, even to the merest acquaint- iand soon reached a large house stand- eac h other; and if you find yourself
ance. ing in its own grounds. happy here, we will spend our lives

Goodness is a much-abused term. This had been the young Castel- together; for I do not hesitate to tell
Too often, alas, it is only another Iain's home for ten years. It was you that, quite apart from the pleas-
word for self-sufficiency, self-confi- Marie's home also ; the Marquise hav- ure f your society, I shall be truly
dence, intolerance regarding the opin- ing felt it her duty to leave the beau- thankful for the pecuniary benefit
i ions and feeling of others, combined tiful old chateau in Normandy and your presence will confer."
[ with a general air of quiet, yet none take up her abode on the smaller The lan had succeeded admirably;
; the less aggressive superiority that is estate at St. Marc when, through the each year only found the two friends
, Of itself sufficiently aggravating to reckless extravagance of her only more attachecL Margery and Marie
less favored mortals. But if it son, the glories of wealth had de- the younger were i ike sisters; while
I means— as, in fact, goodness must parted from the house of de Fleur- ag for Hugh> the Marquise i 0V ed him
; mean— truth, uprightness, purity of ville. scarcely less than the son who had

i heart, self-reverence, self-knowledge, It was a good thing, hard as it may cogt her guch long hours f bitter

self-control, combined with love of sound to say so, for all connected sorrow
I God, faith in the mysteries of our with the unfortunate young Marquis

! holy religion, and charity to our fel not even his adoring mother ex- Thus month after month rolled bv .

low men — thus Hugh was good, cepted— when, some six or seven and lf time— which some say heals

though outwardly he appeared much years before, he had returned home a11 wounds— could not fill the aching

i like his companions, who called him to die. And that the end came and v ° ld m Kathleen Castellain s heart,

I the best of good comrades, even if found him prepared and repentant at least she found a 1 ulet and Iast "

i somewhat too painfully addicted to was due in a great measure to the m S happiness in her children s love.

i hard work. prayers and tears of the widowed Thev adored her > her beautv and

But perhaps that was only his Marquise, whose heart he had well- grace charmed them, while her good-

< English way of taking life seriously, nigh broken. ness and tenderness won from them

t At least they were fain to allow that One day, when she had been set- an a ffectionate reverence and made

he never made duty unpleasantly tied at St. Marc about two years, the her almost sacred m their eyes. She,

I apparent; while despite his gravity Marquise de Fleurville received a let- on her slde > rejoiced in their joys—

of demeanor— a gravity, however, ter from her dearest friend. Beau- grieved in their griefs—and was out-

I which had nothing hard or repellent tiful Kathleen O'More had been the wardly the same to both, but it was

about it, and served rather to increase heroine of all her youthful dreams Hu S h who ™ led her ™ J f™' He was

than diminish their interest— he pos- during that happy school time in the her world— her all If the Marquise

sessed a keen sense of fun. He saw peaceful Breyes convent. And even lushed upon her handsome,